Gokey v. Boston & M. R. Co.

WHEELER, District Judge.

This cause has now been heard on demurrer to a replication to a plea in abatement for defective service of the writ. The writ issued and was served as an attachment. The Vermont statutes provide:

“Sec. 1109. When the goods or chattels of a person are attached at the suit of another, a copy of the attachment and a list of the articles attached, attested by the officer serving the same, shall be delivered to the party whose goods or chattels are so attached, or left at the house of his then usual abode, as directed in the service of summons, and if such person is not an…