83 N.Y.S. 572 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1903
This is an application made by defendants to vacate a levy made by the sheriff of the county of New York upon a New Jersey corporation, called the Cuba Company, upon two grounds, to wit: First. That the property sought to be attached consists of a debt due to defendants, nonresidents of this State, by a foreign corporation, and, therefore, not the subject of attachment here; and, second, that the notice of the attachment is insufficient. As to the first of the grounds urged, it may be said that, as a general proposition, it is the law that the debt of a foreign corporation, due to a nonresident, cannot be attached in this State. A number of authorities on this point are called to my attention. The leading case is that of Douglass v. Phenix Ins. Co., 138 N. Y. 209. This decision proceeded upon the principle that in attachment proceedings the res must be within the jurisdiction of the court issuing the process in order to confer jurisdiction. And it was stated that, as a general rule, the situs of a debt was at the domicile of the creditor, or, for the purposes of attachment proceedings, the domicile of the debtor may fix the situs of the debt.
I conclude, therefore, the motion should be denied, with ten dollars costs to plaintiff to abide the event.
Motion denied, with ten dollars costs to plaintiff to abide event.