Fishel v. Motta
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to foreclose a judgment lien, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Coats, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the defendants, .and appeal by the plaintiffs.
1Opinion of the CourtTorrance, C. J.
In January, 1901, the plaintiffs brought a suit against the defendant Motta, in which they attached whatever interest he then had in the land covered by the judgment lien sought to be foreclosed in the present suit. Subsequently, in April, 1901, they obtained judgment against him in the attachment suit, and upon that judgment filed the lien here in question. When the attachment was made, however, the record title to the land attached stood in the name of Motta’s wife.
The complaint in this case, after alleging that the plaintiffs had thus obtained judgment against Motta in the attachment…
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