Burrill v. Jewett

Robertson, Ch. J.

I think enough is admitted hy the defendant to justify the issuing of the attachment in these cases.

He, it appears by such admissian, left this country for China, to take charge of three trading vessels in which he was interested ; they performed several voyages to different ports in the Chinese and Eastern seas, and he has been absent "on that business for about two and a half years. That was enough to render him not a resident of Hew York, so as to bring him within the statute relating to such attachments. The case of Haggart v. Morgan, decided in the court of last resort,…