Case ID: ohio-cir-dec_2/html/0244-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

ATTACHMENT.
    DONNEGAN ET AL. v. ARMOUR ET AL.
    1. Defenses not a Counterclaim or Set-off.
    In an- attachment suit the defenses cannot be made that the attachment wa* a malicious prosecution, or that it was' wrongful.
    8. Undischarged Attachment.
    A defense should show that the attachment has been terminated.
    Error by defendant below.
   Armour et al. sued Donnegan et al. for goods sent them to sell on commission, and procured an attachment which was executed, and remained undissolved iirdicrh?rg'’d.

Hessenmueller & Gallup, for plaintiff in error.

Henderson, Kline & Tolies, for defendant in error.

Donnegan et al. as a second defense, sought to recover for said attachment as a wrongful attachment, in the same suit, and

Third — For the same attachment as a malicious prosecution.

Held: 1. As to the third defense, that it was insufficient, not setting forth the termination of the attachment.

2. Again, it was not a proper counter-claim or set-off. As to the second defense.

3. Held: First, not a counter-claim, as not connected with the subject ol the action.

4. Second, it was no proper set-off, as not in existence at the beginning dfffhe suit.