Court Opinion

ID: 8316107
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 20:01:24.386791+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:56.392249
License: Public Domain

The CouRT
(Cranch, C. J.,
contra:,) was of opinion, that the attachment should be quashed.
Mr. Bradley then moved to amend the short note, by stating the instrument to be under seal, and to declare in debt. There is no bail to be injured by the amendment. The property of the debtor, himself, is attached. The motion to quash is made really by the defendant, through the garnishee.
The Court refused leave to amend by changing the action from case to debt, because the short note of the cause of action would not have given the defendant the notice which the act contemplates.
The attachment was quashed, because it was to compel the defendant to answer in an action of trespass on the case, when the cause of action was in debt upon a sealed instrument.