Bauer v. Mitchell
Bauer v. Mitchell
Opinion of the Court
On the fifth day of- October, 1903, an action was begun in the district court for Antelope county in the name of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company against the plaintiffs herein upon certain notes not then due. An affidavit for an attachment, alleging that these plaintiffs were about to remove and sell their property with intent to defraud their creditors, was filed, and, after the execution and approval of a bond in the usual form, signed by the defendants herein as sureties, an order of attachment was issued under section 237 of the code. This order was
There was no evidence; as to whether the charge in the affidavit for attachment that the plaintiffs were about to remove and sell their property with intent to defraud their creditors was true or untrue, and the defendants contend that, as under the rule adopted in Storz v. Finklestein, 48 Neb. 27, 50 Neb. 177, the mere dissolution of an attachment does not establish its wrongful issue, the plaintiffs were bound to disprove the fraudulent intent charged against them in the affidavit for attachment by other evidence than the order of dissolution, and that, having failed to do so, the evidence does not sustain the verdict. The fact that an attachment was wrongfully obtained may be established in other ways than by showing that the allegations of fraudulent intent were untrue. In this case the defendants in their answer allege that the action begun in the name of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Company was brought without the authority or sanction of said company, and set forth the proceedings in which the said company appeared in court and procured a dismissal of said action upon the ground that it was brought without their authority. Where an action is brought without the authority or sanction of the party in whose name it is
' The judgment of the district court was right, and Ave recommend that it be affirmed.
By the Court: For the reasons stated in the foregoing opinion, the judgment of the district court is
Affirmed.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Lorence Bauer v. H. W. Mitchell
- Status
- Published