52 Neb. 820 | Neb. | 1897
This was an action in attachment by Rufus L. McDonald and others against Rosina Marquardt, David F. Marquardt, and Charles Place on an account for goods sold ■ and delivered. In the affidavit, as grounds for the writ, plaintiffs’ agent deposed:
“1. That said defendants and each of them is about to remove his property, or a part thereof, out of the jurisdiction of this court with intent to defraud his creditors; and
“2. Is about to convert his property, or a part thereof, into money for the purpose of placing it beyond the reach of his creditors; and
*821 “3. Has property and rights in action which he conceals; and
“4. Has assigned, removed, disposed of, and is about to dispose of his property, or a part thereof, with intent to defraud his creditors; and
“5. Fraudulently contracted the debt.”
The defendant Place alone moved for a dissolution of the attachment: (1) Because the facts stated in the affidavit are not sufficient to justify the issuing of the writ; (2) because said affidavit is untrue; (3) the property seized by the officer under the writ belongs to said defendant individually. The court discharged the attachment, and from the order of dissolution plaintiff prosecutes error.
The attachment affidavit alleges that the action is to recover a debt of $1,213.83, due for goods sold and delivered by plaintiffs; that the claim is just; that the affiant believes plaintiffs ought to recover said sum, and the existence of the five grounds of attachment set out above in the language of the statute. This complied with the requirements of sections 198 and 199 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and the first ground of the motion to discharge the attachment is overruled. (Ellison v. Tallon, 2 Neb., 14; 3 Neb., 63; Hilton v. Ross, 9 Neb., 496; Steele v. Dodd, 14 Neb., 496; Burnham v. Ramage, 47 Neb., 175.) That the defendant Place was the individual owner of the property upon which the attachment was levied was no ground for dissolving the writ. (Drake, Attachment [6th ed.], 418; Rosenburg v. Burnstein, 61 N. W. Rep. [Minn.], 684.) The attachment was doubtless vacated upon the second ground stated in the motion to discharge, namely, that the affidavit made the basis for the issuance of the writ was untrue. There is but little controversy in regard to the main facts of the case. Plaintiffs were wholesale merchants of the city of St. Joseph, Mo., and the defendant David F. Marquardt was a retail merchant at Burcliard, this state, from January
It is said that the debt for which the attachment was issued was the individual debt of Marquardt, and for the payment of which Place is not liable. This, if true, is no ground for vacating the writ. The merits of a cause cannot be adjudicated upon the hearing of a motion to dissolve. (Olmstead v. Rivers, 9 Neb., 234.) The order complained of is reversed, and the attachment is reinstated.
Reversed. •