Case ID: mich_26/html/0102-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John H. Wells v. John Parker.
    
      Attachment: Affidavit. An affidavit lor an attachment must comply substantially with the statute; if it fail .to show that the debt is duo “ over and above all legal Bet offs,” it is void.
    
      Heard and decided October 31.
    
    Error to Kalamazoo Circuit.
    
      May & Bucle, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H. M Severens, for defendant in error,
    was stepped by the court.
   Per Curiam.

The defense in the court below depended upon the writ of attachment.

An affidavit for an attachment must comply substantially with the statute. If it fails to show that the debt claimed is due “over and above all legal set offs,” it is void.

Judgment affirmed.