Case ID: ky-op_3/html/0657-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Hardin:", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Weeden Lawson v. James W. Hopkins.
    Attachments — Burden of Proof.
    The grounds of attachment having been controverted by the answer, the burden of proving it thus devolved on the plaintiff.
    APPEAL FROM BULLITT CIRCUIT COURT.
    September 30, 1869.
    
      W. H. Thompson, for appellant.
    
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Hardin:

The appellant sued out his attachment on the 25th of April, 1867, on the grounds that the defendant was “about to sell, convey and dispose of his property with the fraudulent intent to cheat, hinder and delay his creditors.” This was controverted by the answer, and the burden of proving it thus devolved on the plaintiff.

It seems to this court that there was no sufficient evidence before the court to sustain said grounds of attachment, and the court, therefore, properly adjudged that the plaintiff’s attachment created a lien only from the 8th day of February, 1869, when his supplemental affidavit was filed.

Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.