Lewis v. Higgins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Superior Court of Baltimore City. This was an attachment instituted under the Act of 1864, ch. 306, by the ’ appellees against the appellant. The attachment was laid in the hands of Francis W. Bennett and Alfred C. FT. Mathews, trading as F. W. Bennett & Co. The defendant and the garnishees appeared and pleaded. The case is further stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This was an attachment under the Act of 1864, ch. 306. The defendant appeared to the short note case, and *616pleaded in abatement, that at tbe time of the institution of this action “there was on file on the Docket of the District Court of the United States of the District of Maryland, pending for trial, proceedings instituted by the plaintiffs against the defendant, upon the same debt as set forth in this case, for the purpose of having him adjudged a bankrupt.” The defendant pleaded a similar plea, making the same averments, to the writ of attachment ; and to both of which pleas the plaintiffs…
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