57 Cal. 361 | Cal. | 1881
Plaintiffs commenced an action against defendant, and sued out a writ of attachment, by virtue of which personal property of the defendant was seized August 14th, 1879. On the 11th of September, 1879, defendant moved the Court for an order staying, proceedings, on the ground that since the commence
1. Hyams, being a stranger to the record, could not be permitted to make any motion in the case without becoming a party.
2. The motion having been once made and denied, could not be renewed without leave of the Court.
3. The motion for discharge of attachment failed to set out the grounds of the motion.
4. If the motion was based on the discharge, the regularity of the proceedings should have been shown.
5. Section 6 of the Act of March 31st, 1876, being supplemental to the Act of 1852, so far as it purports to dissolve an attachment in a case of voluntary bankruptcy, is unconstitutional and void, because the law which is amended or revised by it is not re-enacted in full.
The transcript before us does not show that either of these points was made in the Court below. But, even if they had been made, we see no error in the order dissolving the attachment. The record exhibits sufficient to show the regularity of the proceedings of the Court below. The Act of March 31st, 1876, provides that all attachments upon the property of .the debtor, levied within two months before filing the petition, are dissolved. The law dissolved the attachment, and it was en
Order affirmed.
Morrison, C. J., and Sharpstein, J., concurred.