TOLAND v. SPRAGUE


37 U.S. 300 (1838)

12 Pet. 300

HENRY TOLAND, PLAINTIFF IN ERROR v. HORATIO SPRAGUE.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was argued by Mr. Gilpin and Mr. Hare, for the plaintiff in error; and by Mr. Gerhard, with whom was Coxe, for the defendant.


Mr. Justice BARBOUR delivered the opinion of the Court:

This is a writ of error to a judgment of the circuit court of the United States for the district of Pennsylvania.

The suit was commenced by the plaintiff in error against the defendant in error, by a process known in Pennsylvania by the name of a foreign attachment; by which, according to the laws of that state, a debtor who is not an inhabitant of the commonwealth...

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