Picquet v. Swan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[This was a proceeding by Antonio F. Pic-quet, administrator, against James Swan and trustees.] The trustees were discharged at the last term [Case No. 11,133], and at this term, being the third term since the commencement of the suit, a motion was made, that the defendant be defaulted for his non-appearance, and judgment be given against him for such default according to the usual practice of the state courts of Massachusetts.
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This suit was commenced by a writ, which is known in this state as the “trustee process,” but is better known elsewhere as the “process of foreign attachment,” and was returnable to May term, 1827, of this court By the state laws it is a process equally applicable to cases, where the suit is against an inhabitant, and where it is against a non-resident, whether he has ever been an inhabitant or not. In the writ the parties are described as follows: The plaintiff as “of the city of Paris in the kingdom of France, an alien, and subject of .liis most Christian majesty the…
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