5 Kan. 293 | Kan. | 1870
By the Court,
This cause was before us upon another question at
The plaintiff amended her original affidavit by filing an amended affidavit within the ten days prescribed by the district court. At the next term of the district court the defendant again moved the court to dissolve the attachment for defects which the amended affidavit did not cure. The court ssutained his motion and dissolved the attachment, and the plaintiff now .brings the case to this court to reverse said order of the -district court on said motion.
ATTACHaiENT: Affidavit. That the original affidavit was defective there scarceiy room for any .doubt. It does not sufficiently show the nature of the plaintiff’s claims, or at least of the third, fourth and fifth claims. [Sub. 1, § 200, Comp. L., 155; Drake on Attachment, § 96, 104.] It is difficult to understand as to these claims, last mentioned, whether they are founded upon torts or upon contract; and if they are founded upon torts, the affidavit is open to the further objection that it does not state that the causes of action upon which these claims are founded arose wholly within the limits of this state. § 1, Laws of 1866, 182.
As to claims numbered 8, 4, 5 and 6, the affidavit does not sufficiently show the amount, which the affiant believes the plaintiff ought to recover. Sub. 3, § 2Q0, Comp. L., 155.
The court below decides that the affidavit does not sufficiently show that the plaintiff’s claims are just. [Sub.
The words just and justly, do not always mean just and justly, in a moral sense, but they not unfrequently in their connection with other words in a sentence, bear a
Dissolution of Attachment. Where tbe affidavit is clearly insufficient, as many respects, it is undoubtedly tbe duty of tbe court upon motion of tbe defendant, to dissolve tbe attachment, unless tbe plaintiff shall within a reasonable time, to be fixed by tbe court, make tbe affidavit sufficient by amendment, and where tbe affidavit is informal only, as this is, in not stating positively, but
Amended: Affidavit. And now, turning our attention to the amended affidavit, we would say that it is also undoubtedly defective in not relating back to the time of filing the original affidavit. [Drake on Attachment, 3d Ed., § 113; Crouch v. Crouch, 9 Iowa, 269, 271; Wadsworth v. Cheeney, 10 id., 257, 259.] It cures no defect of the. original affidavit, except that it states more clearly the nature of the plaintiff’s claims. Its material averments are all in the present tense. It affirms that each of the plaintiff’s claims is just, but it does not show that said claims were just at the time the original affidavit was filed. It affirms the amount which the affiant believes the plaintiff ought to recover at the time when she makes the amended affidavit, but not at the time when she made the original affidavit.
An amended affidavit cannot be, for the purpose of showing that the plaintiff has good grounds for an attachment at the time of making the same, but for the purpose of showing that the plaintiff had good grounds for an attachment at the time the original affidavit was made. The object is not to obtain a new order of attachment, but to sustain one already issued. It is not to show that one might then rightly issue, but to show that the one already issued was not wrongfully sued out.
After it was determined in the court below that the amended affidavit was insufficient, that it did not cure the defects in the original affidavit, the plaintiff again asked
The decision and order of the district court must be affirmed.