Taylor v. Carney
Taylor v. Carney
Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
The record, in this .case, presents precisely the same state of facts as that in the case between the same parties, decided in this court at the January term, 1867,
The property of the defendant, Meyer, was within the state on the fourth of July, 1866, and as he was per
Accordingly, suit was'commenced in the county of Douglas, summons and order of attachment issued, and jurisdiction having once vested in the court, it could not be divested by the subsequent removal of the property across the county line oí Douglas into Shawnee, where it was attached on the process properly and legally issued in Douglas county, before the’rights of any person had intervened, or any process had issued from the court in Shawnee county.
The judgment of the court below affirmed.
Thomas Carney et al. v. Robert Taylor, ante p. 178.
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- Robert Taylor v. Thomas Carney
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- When, at .the time an action was instituted in the district court of Douglas county, the defendant was a non-resident of and absent from the state? hut had property in that county, which plaintiff sought to reach hy attachment, held, that the court had jurisdiction, and the property having been moved into an adjoining county (Shawnee) before the levy of .the attachment, might be regularly attached in that action, by a levy thereon of an attachment in Shawnee county; and held, that such attachment will take priority of one subsequently levied on the same property, in a suit commenced in Shawnee county. Jurisdiction having once vested in a court, cannot be divested by the subsequent removal of property sought to be reached, into another county.