Speigelberg v. Hersch

The issue in this case was the truth of an affidavit for attachment. The affidavit charges that defendants had fraudulently concealed and disposed of their property with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud their creditors. The facts proved are substantially as follows: Defendants were merchants in Santa Fe, engaged in a general retail trade; they were indebted to plaintiffs in the sum of about $1,000; that defendant L. Hersch, at Santa Fe, made his certain promissory note to his brother-in-law, Sigmund Praeger, of New York, for'the sum of about $6,000; that to secure payment of this note he…