Lawton v. Reil

The attachment was issued against the defendants as non-resident debtors. The claim of the plaintiff was for damages arising upon the breach of a contract on part of defendants to purchase for the plaintiffs sound corn; and the breach complained of was that the com was not sound, but heated and spoiled.

The damages claimed was the difference between the cost price and the price at which the plaintiffs sold the same.

The first ground relied upon is that the damages are unliquidated, and that in such a case the Code does not provide for an attachment. The only requisites in the Code are that the…