Dorr v. Waldron

This was an attachment under the act of 1845, brought to the Superior Court of Chicago at the June term, 1870.

The proceedings were regular under the statute, by affidavit, bond, statement of the cause of action, and bill of particulars, on which a writ of attachment issued, and was levied on the tug boat in question, “ E. P. Dorr,” and by reading the writ “to Joseph Moffett, owner of said tug boat.”

The boat appeared by attorney and pleaded nil debit, and a special plea as follows :

And for a further plea in this behalf, the defendant says, actio non, because it says, true it is that plaintiffs…