Swift v. Hawkens
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by defendants Hawkens and Chisolm. Action on the case for false imprisonment. The writ was entered at the January term, 1907, of the Supreme Judicial Court, Knox County. The defendants, Hawkens and Chisolm', appeared specially by counsel and filed motions to dismiss the action as to them.
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On exceptions by defendants Hawkens and Chisolm. Action on the case for false imprisonment. The writ was entered at the January term, 1907, of the Supreme Judicial Court, Knox County. The defendants, Hawkens and Chisolm', appeared specially by counsel and filed motions to dismiss the action as to them. The case as stated by the bill of exceptions is as follows: "On the writ, which is the ordinary and regular writ of attachment, commanding.the officer to attach the goods and estate of the defendants within named to the value of five hundred dollars, the officer’s return omitting the service…
1Opinion of the CourtPeabody, J.
The writ in this case issued from the clerk’s office of the Supreme Judicial Court for the County of Knox. It was in form a regular and ordinary writ of attachment commanding the officers to whom it was addressed to attach the goods and estate of the defendants therein named to the value of five hundred dollars.
The officer’s return showed the attachment of "a chip the property of the Rockland Thomaston & Camden Street Railway, the within named defendants.” The defendants, Hawkens and Chisolm, each seasonably filed a motion to dismiss the action as to them for want of sufficient service of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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