Slaughter v. Bevans
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the District Court for Iowa County. Bevans sued out a writ of attachment against Slaughter in the Iowa county district court, on the 10th September, 1839. On the same day, on different affidavits, other writs were issued to the counties of Brown, Dane, Grant, Milwaukee, and Racine. There was no indorsement of satisfaction on the affidavit for the writ, by the officer before whom it was made.
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ERROR to the District Court for Iowa County. Bevans sued out a writ of attachment against Slaughter in the Iowa county district court, on the 10th September, 1839. On the same day, on different affidavits, other writs were issued to the counties of Brown, Dane, Grant, Milwaukee, and Racine. There was no indorsement of satisfaction on the affidavit for the writ, by the officer before whom it was made. The sheriff of Iowa county returned the writ directed to him, nulla bona, and served personally, but how or when the personal service was made, does not appear by the return. The writs to Grant…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
This suit was commenced by attachment in the district court for Iowa county, by John Bevans against William B. Slaughter. It was predicated on an affidavit of plaintiff, charging the defendant with fraudulently disposing of his property, so as to hinder and delay his creditors. The affidavit was made before a justice of the peace, the 10th day of September, 1839 (before the act in the Revised Statutes was amended), and the justice had neglected to indorse his satisfaction thereon, previous to the issuing of the writ. At the September term of said district court for the year 1840, the court…
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