Seibels v. Northern Central Ry. Co.
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Memminger, J., Richland, January, 1907. Action by Edwin G. Seibels and Dorothy N. Seibels against the Northern Central Railway Company, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company.
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Before Memminger, J., Richland, January, 1907. Action by Edwin G. Seibels and Dorothy N. Seibels against the Northern Central Railway Company, the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company. From circuit order refusing to dissolve attachment, the New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company appeals. cite: Car mas not subject to attachment: 63 S. C., 536; 64 L. R. A., 501, 634; 76 S. C., 473. Sheriff did not take actual possession of car, hence attachment void: 3 Ency., 340; Code of Proc., Secs. '353, 357, 358. The complaint ffails to state a cause of action: 54 S'. C., 583; 69 S.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Mr. Justice Jones.
The appeal’ is from an order refusing to vacate ah attachment levied at the instance of plaintiffs. on a freight box car belonging to the defendant, New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, a foreign corporation, while in the yard of the Seaboard Air Tine Railwáy Company at Columbia, S. C.
The exceptions raise three questions:
1. Whether the complaint stated facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action against the appellant, New York Central & Hudson' River Railroad Company, so as to sustain an attachment of its property.
2.…
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