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9 Sadler 288

Stockham v. Boyd

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 23, 1888

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1888-01-23

January Term, 1887, No. 444, E. D., before Gordon, Oh. J., Paxson, Sterrett, Green, Clark, and Williams, JJ. Error to Common Pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County to review a judgment for plaintiffs in an action begun by foreign attachment This was an action of assumpsit on a promissory note, commenced by summons case, February 20, 1885, which was -returned tarde venit.

Affirmed · Decided 1888-01-23

Per Curiam :

¶1The court below was evidently right in striking off the plea to the jurisdiction. It is too plain for argument that the court below has jurisdiction in a case of foreign attachment. Whether this particular case was properly assigned to common pleas No. 4 we are not called upon to decide; and if we were, the record furnishes us no information upon the subject. We must presume it to have been properly done.

¶2*292There was no error in issuing the writ of foreign attachment, pending the action commenced- by summons. The latter writ does not appear to have been served; and if it had been, the plaintiff had still the right to issue the attachment, the defendant not being a resident of the state. There is a remedy where a defendant has been served with two or more writs for the same cause of action, but the remedy has not been pursued, and we have no such case before us.

¶3It is alleged that the attachment was entitled of the. same term and number as the original summons. If this be so, it has done the defendant no harm; the judgment was properly entered and, therefore, is affirmed.

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