M'Queen v. Middle-town Manufacturing Co.
New York Supreme Court
ON the petition of the above named creditors, and affidavits of their debt, and of the absence of the defendants out of the state, pursuant to the act for relief against absconding and absent debtors, (24 sess. ch. 49.) the Recorder of the city of New-York, on the sixth day of November last, issued an attachment against the estate, real and personal, of the defendants, directed to the sheriff of the city and county of New-York.
1Opinion of the CourtSpencer, J.
An attachment having been issued in this case against the estate of a corporation existing in Middletown, in the state of Connecticut, a motion is now made for a supersedeas, on the ground, that the statute for relief against absconding and absent debtors, does not authorize a proceeding against a corporation. The attachment, it has been contended, may issue in such a case, under the 23d sec. of the act. (1 N. R. L. 163.) That section enacts, that the real and personal estáte of every debtor who resides out of this state, and is indebted within it, shall be liable to be attached, and sold for…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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