Case Name: Folger and another against Hoogland
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1809-11
Citations: 5 Johns. 235
Docket Number: 
Parties: Folger and another against Hoogland.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 235–235

Head Matter:
Folger and another against Hoogland.
Before an attachment issues' against a sheriff, the proceedings áre to he entitled iuthe names of the parties in the suit; but after the granting of the attachment, the proceedings must be entitled in the name of the people.
EVE RTS ON, for the defendant,
moved to set aside the attachment issued in this cause against Joseph C. Field, esquire, sheriff of Dutchess county,
Talbot, contra,
objected, that the affidavit was erroneously entitled in the original suit. It should have been in the name of the sheriff, at the suit of the people.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The rule is, that until the attachment is granted, the proceedings are entitled in the names of the parties in the civil suit; but after the attachment has been granted, all the proceedings must be in the name of the people. (3 Term Rep. 133. 7 Term Rep. 439. 528. 2 East, 182.)