Reeves v. Comly
Reeves v. Comly
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiffs are appellants from a judgment sustaining the opposition of the defendant to a writ of attachment obtained by the former, on the disproval of the fact alleged, to wit, that the defendant had left the State with the intention not to return. The facts of this case are exactly the same as those in a case against the same defendant, decided in this court in January last. 1 Robinson, 231.
The first judge determined the question of law in accordance with our judgment in the former case, but he viewed the question of fact in quite a different light.
The defendant gave his actual return as evidence of his intention to return, and the court was of opinion that the record presented no fact which authorized a conclusion different from that to which it arrived. In this, in our opinion, the judge erred. The record of the case determined by us in January last, taken from the minutes of the District Court, from which the appeal was brought up, was placed before him. On the facts proved in the District Court, we said, that “ the case of the defendant is that of a person charged with having, with the aid of one of the tellers
It is therefore ordered, that the judgment be reversed, and the attachment reinstated.; the defendant and appellee paying the costs of the appeal.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- David Reeves and others v. Nathan F. Comly
- Status
- Published