The writ of attachment was issued on the alleged grounds that the defendants were about to dispose of their property with intent to defraud their creditors, and that they had disposed of their property, in whole or in part, with intent to defraud their creditors. The writ was levied upon certain real estate in the city of Ottumwa. The defendants appeared to the action, and filed an answer, in which they admitted that they were indebted to the plaintiff on the note and accounts in suit to the amount claimed, but alleged that the attachment was wrongfully and maliciously sued out, and that on the day it was levied they made to O. W. Major an assignment of all their property not exempt from execution for the benefit of their creditors. On the same day the assignee filed a petition of intervention, in which he admitted the indebtedness of the defendants as alleged by the plaintiff, and sought to recover on the attachment bond, by virtue of the assignment by the defendants to him, for damages alleged to have been sustained by the defendants, in consequence of the alleged wrongful and malicious suing out and levying of the writ of attachment. A motion to
Tisdale v. Major
106 Iowa 1
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