Johnson v. Moss

The questions decided at this term in a case between the same parties, (see last preceding case,) dispose of all the points in this, except the following: This suit was also commenced by attachment ; the defendant was not personally served, and did not appear on the trial. The plaintiff declared on a judgment, which probably was the judgment recovered in the first action. It is objected that no action will lie on the first judgment until the property taken on the first attachment has been sold. See Laws of 1831, p. 405, § 39. The second attachment was levied on other property than that taken on the first; and it is said that this could not be done until the property first taken had been sold. If the objections are well founded, they cannot be remedied by a common law certiorari. On the re-turn of the attachment, all things being apparently regular, the justice had jurisdiction to hear the cause and render judgment.

Judgment affirmed.