Pierce v. Carskadon
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals..of West Virginia; the case being thus: ■ In August, 1864, one Carskadon brought an aetion of trespass de bonis asportalis against Pierce, Williams, and others, iu-one of the State courts of West Virginia, and at the same time sued out an attachment against their real estate; and on the 20th of December, 1864, recovered a judgment against Pierce and Williams for $690. The attachment which gave the. court jurisdiction, was feued out under…
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Error to the Supreme Court of Appeals..of West Virginia; the case being thus: ■ In August, 1864, one Carskadon brought an aetion of trespass de bonis asportalis against Pierce, Williams, and others, iu-one of the State courts of West Virginia, and at the same time sued out an attachment against their real estate; and on the 20th of December, 1864, recovered a judgment against Pierce and Williams for $690. The attachment which gave the. court jurisdiction, was feued out under au act of West Virginia, passed 26th September, 1863,* which provided iu its first section as follows, viz.: “ When any…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Field
This case is covered in every particular by the decisions of this court in Cummings v. The State of Missouri, and in Ex parte Garland, reported in 4th Wallace. Upon the authority of those decisions the judgment of the Supreme Court'of West Virginia must be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings; and it is
So ORDERED.
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