Shewan v. Hallenbeck

ADAMS, District Judge.

This is a motion on the respondent’s part to vacate an attachment obtained under process in personam with a clause of foreign attachment. The libellants filed a libel on the 19th of August, 1905, to recover a balance of $567.15 for repairs made in April, 1904, at New York, on the steamtug William Coleman, owned by the respondent. It is alleged that the respondent was a resident of Brooklyn, New York, and that the full bill was $808.08, upon which there were paid $240.95, leaving unpaid the balance claimed. This libel has never been served upon the respondent or an…