1. It asserts that the plaintiff had good reason to believe and did believe that the defendant had secreted property “to an amount sufficient to satisfy the demand in said action. ’ ’ The defendant insists that it should have followed the language of the statute, and asserted that the defendant had secreted property to an amount “sufficient to satisfy the demand upon which he is to be arrested.”
But this is spinning it too fine; the affidavit properly bears the title of the case of which it forms a part, and the reference-which it contains to the demand in that action is enough to show that it was the one on which the defendant was to be arrested. See Davis v. Dorr, 30 Vt. 97. It cannot be said that no action was then pending, for in contemplation of the law the filing of the affidavit and the issuance of the writ are simultaneous acts; and though the former necessarily precedes the latter, they are parts of the same transaction.
Affirmed.