United States v. Vaughan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
IN April 1803, the United States attached, in the hands of the president directors and company of the bank of the United States, twenty-four shares of stock as the property °f Bird, Savage, and Bird, which then stood in their name on the books of the bank; and by agreement of the bank, the scire facias against the present defendants, who were garnishees in another attachment between the same parties, was t0 considered as having issued against the bank, and the right to the…
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IN April 1803, the United States attached, in the hands of the president directors and company of the bank of the United States, twenty-four shares of stock as the property °f Bird, Savage, and Bird, which then stood in their name on the books of the bank; and by agreement of the bank, the scire facias against the present defendants, who were garnishees in another attachment between the same parties, was t0 considered as having issued against the bank, and the right to the stock was to be tried under the plea of nulla , o°na' Stock of the has been sold tbe'certiflcate delivered to the…
1Opinion of the Court
Yeates J.
The reserved point in this case is, whether according .to the true construction of the act of congress, in-titled “ an act to incorporate the subscribers to the bank of “ the United States j” passed on the 25th of February 1791, the depositions of the witnesses containing their answers to the interrogatories proposed under the commissions, ought to have been received in evidence upon the trial of this cause.
It cannot be denied, that a mere chose in action equitably *400assigned, is not subject to the operation of a foreign attachment instituted against the party, whose name must…
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