19 Ind. App. 222 | Ind. Ct. App. | 1898
— Appellant sued appellees on an attachment bond. A demurrer for want of sufficient facts was sustained to the complaint, and this ruling
The remedy by attachment is in derogation of the common law, and exists in this State by virtue of the statute alone. It is not an independent proceeding, but is an extraordinary remedy given in aid of an action already commenced or begun at the time of the proceedings in attachment. Excelsior Fish Co. v. Lukins, 38 Ind. 438. It is well settled that the statutory provisions upon which the right to an attachment depends should be strictly construed both as to the subject-matter of the attachment and the manner of enforcing the remedy. Louisville, etc., R. W. Co. v. Parish, 6 Ind. App. 89.
In the case at bar the attachment proceeding was not an independent action against all the defendants named in the original action, but was an additional remedy resorted to by the plaintiff in that action to collect a debt, not from Saul Rodde, but from Hertz-man and Samuel Rodde. Before the plaintiff was entitled to the writ he must show by affidavit one or more of the statutory grounds for attachment. This he did as against Hertzman and Samuel Rodde by stating that they were about to dispose of their property to Saul Rodde with intent to cheat, hinder, and delay their creditors, and that Saul Rodde was about to sell said property of said codefendants for the purpose of cheating the creditors of his codefendants. It is true, it was alleged in the third paragraph of complaint that all the defendants owed the amount sued for, but the bill of particulars filed as an exhibit and made a phrt of that paragraph shows that the account was owing only by Hertzman & Rodde, and construing that paragraph and the exhibit together it cannot be
The principles declared in the case of Faulkner v. Brigel, 101 Ind. 329, are in point, and are controlling in the case at bar. In that case appellant begun suit against appellees Brigel and Sterling, and filed an affidavit in attachment averring that Brigel was a nonresident, and also filed an undertaking to “pay to the defendants all damages which he may sustain if'