Trans Coastal Corp. v. Curtis

CLIFFORD, Justice.

Defendant Brian Curtis appeals from the denial in the Superior Court (Ken-nebec County, Alexander, J.) of his motion to dissolve an ex parte attachment 1 issued in favor of plaintiff Trans Coastal Corporation. We agree with Curtis’s contention that the affidavit submitted by Trans Coastal provides an insufficient basis to support the attachment under the applicable preponderance of the evidence standard, and we vacate the attachment.

Curtis became employed by Trans Coastal, a trucking firm, as a spare driver in December 1990, and became a full-time driver in January of 1991.…