Farley-Harvey Co. v. Madden

This action was brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County under the provisions of § 6142 of the General Statutes. The complaint alleges, with an entirely unnecessary division into counts, an indebtedness of the defendant to the plaintiff, a demand for payment and a refusal, and then the defendant’s concealment or removal of his personal property and his refusal to disclose his rights of action, in order to prevent their being taken by legal process. The writ, as authorized by the statute, directed an attachment of the body of the defendant, if attachable property could not be found.…