50 Neb. 12 | Neb. | 1896
It appears herein that an action was commenced before a justice of the peace in Douglas county, in which a writ of attachment was procured to issue and was by an officer levied on property of the defendant. Prior to the day assigned in the summons for hearing of the main cause a motion, supported by affidavits, to discharge the attachment was filed and a day was set for the hearing of said motion, on which the parties appeared by counsel, and after a partial presentation of the matter its further hearing was adjourned to the following day, when it was again taken up, the hearing
The only question of those argued in the briefs which we deem it necessary to consider is whether the justice of the peace was entitled to charge the $1 for one of the two days of his attendance on the hearing of the motion to discharge the attachment, and the determination of this hinges in part upon the answer to the query, was the hearing of a motion to dissolve a trial within the meaning of the word “trial” as it appears in the fee bill embodied in our statutes, and also in section 279 of the Code of Civil Procedure? The section last mentioned reads as follows: “A trial is a judicial examination of the issues, whether of law or of fact, in an action.” In section 11 of chapter 28 of the Compiled Statutes, in which section the fees of justices of the peace are fixed, appears the following sentence: “Each day’s attendance upon trial of a cause, after the first day, one dollar.” Section 235 of the Code, by which the right is conferred to file a motion to discharge an attachment, is as follows: “The defendant may, at any time before judgment, upon reasonable notice to the plaintiff, move to discharge an attachment as to the whole or a part of the property attached;” and the next section (236) reads: “If the motion be made upon affidavits on the part of the defendant, or papers and evidence in the case, but not otherwise, the plaintiff may oppose the same by affidavits or other evidence, in addition to that on which the order of attach
We will turn now to what has been said by this court in particular reference to attachment. In the syllabus to the opinion in Reed v. Maben, 21 Neb., 696, it is said: “Attachment, although an ancillary remedy, and applicable to a limited class of cases, yet within its limits rests upon its own facts, and not upon the facts of the action;” and in the body of the opinion appears the following on the same subject: “Attachment is a proceeding ancillary to the main action in which it is allowed. If the main action is attacked and overthrown, the attachment goes with it. On the other hand, it often hap
Reversed and remanded.