Lyon v. Blakesly

26 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 299
CourtNew York Supreme Court
DecidedDecember 15, 1879
StatusPublished

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Lyon v. Blakesly, 26 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 299 (N.Y. Super. Ct. 1879).

Opinion

Barnard, P. J. i

By section 635 of the Code o‘f Civil Procedure, an attachment is; authorized against a non-resident defendant in an action for a breach, of contract, express or implied. By section 636, in such an action,, the affidavit must show that the plaintiff is entitled to recover a supi stated therein, “ over and above all counter-claims known to him.”' The affidavit in this case wholly omits, this clause of subdivision 1. of section 636. The omission is fatal to the attachment. A strict', observance of the statute is necessary. The omission of the words.: “ over and above all discounts,” in an affidavit to obtain an attachment from a justice of the peace when the statute required these words, was held fatal. (Kelly v. Archer, 48 Barb., 68.)

The omitted words were not in section 229 of the Old Code, which corresponds substantially with section 636, as now enacted..

The order refusing to vacate the attachment must be reversed,, with costs and disbursements, and an'order vacating attachment, granted, with costs.

Pratt, J., concurred ; Dykman, J., not sitting.

Order reversed, with costs and disbursements and attachment vacated.

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