Wood v. Roach

Scire facias sur foreign attachment. Plea nulla bona with leave to give the special matters in evidence.

The defendants rested their defence on two points. — ist. That the goods attached having been laden on board the ship Alexander, whereof George Roach one of the defendants was master, previous to the attachment, were tacitlj' obliged for the freight, and, as it were, bailed for that purpose. Beawes’ Rex Mercat. 112. Moll. lib. 2, c. 4, § 9. Ib. lib. 2, c. 3 § 19. 2 Equ. Cas. Abr. 98, pi. 1: 3 Bac. Abr. 598. 2 Bac. Abr. 352.

2d. That one Robert Elliot in Ireland had a prior legal title to the…