Case ID: ky_42/html/0360-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Ewing", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Garnet vs Wimp.
    Error to the Meade Circuit.
    Trespass.
    
      Case 99.
    
      May 1.
    
    
      W. Allen for plaintiff.
    
      Attachments. Justification.
    
    Although an attachment does not show on its face that the requisite complaint has been made, and that the requisite bond lias been given, it is nevertheless a justificationlo the officer levying it; and to the plaintiffs also, if not causelessly sued out, and if so sued out, case is the remedy.
   Chief Justice Ewing

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Though an attachment issuing from a Justice, is quash-able for irregularity, if it does not specify upon its face that the complaint required by the statute to be made, was made before the Justice, or if it shall appear that the required bond was not executed, yet the subject matter being within the jurisdiction of the Justice, it is not void for either of these omissions, but voidable only, and not being void, it affords protection, against trespass viet arniis, to the officer who levies it, as well as to the- party who sues it out, if not causelessly sued out, as was in principle settled by the Court in the case of Owens vs Starr, (2 Littell, 230,) and Banta vs Reynolds and Kendall, decided at the last fall term, (3 B. Monroe, 80.) The remedy of the defendant in the attachment, if he has been injured, is in case.

Judgment affirmed, with costs.