Case Name: Ex parte Caldwell, an absconding debtor
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1826-02
Citations: 5 Cow. 293
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte Caldwell, an absconding debtor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 5
Pages: 293–293

Head Matter:
Ex parte Caldwell, an absconding debtor.
A foreign creditor is entitled to an attachment under the absconding debt- or act. (1 R« L. 157.)
Caldwell fled irom his creditors in Paisley, Scotland, to the city of New-York. Being pursued hither by Crawford, one of his Scotch creditors, he concealed himself: and an attachment was taken out against him under the act for relief against absconding and absent debtors. (1 ft. L. 157.)
S. A. Foote,
now moved to supersede the attachment, on the ground (among others) that foreign creditors are not within the statute. He cited Matter of Fitzgerald, 2 Caine’s Rep. 318.
J. Platt, contra,
cited 6 John. Ch. Rep. 186, and the 20th section of the act in question, as conclusive.

Opinion:
Curia.
The court must have overlooked that section when they decided Fitzgerald's case cited from Caines. That section sanctions this proceeding in express terms. And the motion must be denied.
Motion denied.
Vid. Revision of the laws by Kent and Radcliff, vol. I, page 242, section 20 of the act under which Fitzgerald's case arose.