Haley v. Reid
Supreme Court of Georgia
Attachment, in Spalding Superior Court. Decided by Judge Stark, May Term, 1854. John B. Reid had sued out an attachment against John J. Haley and David S. Mills; which attachment had been levied by the Sheriff,-on stock of defendant in the Griffin and. West Point Plank-road Company; the levy being made by entry to that effect, on the attachment by the Sheriff.
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Attachment, in Spalding Superior Court. Decided by Judge Stark, May Term, 1854. John B. Reid had sued out an attachment against John J. Haley and David S. Mills; which attachment had been levied by the Sheriff,-on stock of defendant in the Griffin and. West Point Plank-road Company; the levy being made by entry to that effect, on the attachment by the Sheriff. At the term to which the attachment was returnable, the Counsel for defendants moved to dismiss it on several grounds,.the only one of which necessary to be stated was, that an attachment cannot, under the laws of this State, be levied…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Benning, J.
delivering the opinion.
'[1.] Can an attachment, against a stockholder in a corporation, be “ served and levied” on the stock of the stockholder, in the corporation ? This is the only question which it is necessary to decide in this case.
The attachment, in this case, was not served by summons of garnishment — by a summons of garnishment treating the corporation as the debtor of the defendants in the attachment, for so much stock held in the corporation by the defendants. I do not mean to say that the attachment might have been served in that way. I express no opinion,…
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