Townsend v. L. J. Appel Sons., Inc.

A nonresident debtor’s attachment was issued out of the Baltimore City Court by the appellee, L. J. Appel Sons, Inc., against Arthur W. Townsend and Walter J. Townsend, by which the sheriff of Baltimore seized “1 Brockway Truck, Penna. License Y-11037”. A petition was then filed by Arthur S. Townsend and the said Walter J. Townsend, co-partners, to quash and set aside the attachment, on the ground that the property attached was their property, as copartners, and not subject to attachment. Gilpin v. Somerville, 163 Md. 40, 161 A. 272. The court, on the hearing of the petition overruled the…