Morgan v. New York National Building & Loan Ass'n
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action upon the so-called common counts, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and reserved by that court, George W. Wheeler, J., upon the plaintiff’s demurrer to a plea in abatement filed by'the receivers of the defendant, for the consideration and advice of this court.
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Action upon the so-called common counts, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and reserved by that court, George W. Wheeler, J., upon the plaintiff’s demurrer to a plea in abatement filed by'the receivers of the defendant, for the consideration and advice of this court. The defendant was a New York corporation organized under Chap. 122 of the Laws of 1851, and certain real estate was attached, as its property, on June 27th, 1899. The plea in abatement set up the dissolution of the corporation, pending the action, and asked that the attachment might be vacated. On July 27th, 1899,…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
An attachment of property on mesne process is a mode, of obtaining security for the satisfaction of any judgment which, the plaintiff may finally recover. In the case at bar the plaintiff can never recover judgment on his.. demand. His suit is in personam, and the defendant was an artificial person, whose existence has been terminated by authority of the same government from which it was originally derived. An attachment in a suit against a natural person is dissolved by his death, notwithstanding the entry by his administrator to defend, and a judgment duly rendered against the latter. Green…
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