Case ID: h-mch_4/html/0162-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GENERAL COURT,
    MAY TERM, 1798,
    
    Smith vs. Greenleaf.
    This was an attachment on warrant under the act of 1795, c. 56.
    it appeared that the warrant to the clerk of the general court to issue the attachment was by a justice of the peace.
    
      Mason and Crunch, for the plaintiff'.
    
      Martin, (Attorney-General,) and Key, for the defendant.
   The Court said, that a justice of the peace had no authority,’ under the act of assembly, to issue his warrant to the clerk of the general court — He could only issue a warrant to the clerk of the county court.

Attachment quashed.