State ex rel. Boyer v. Superior Court

Citations

• 115 Wash. 359
• 197 P. 321
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 1066

Syllabus

<p>Attachment (1-1) — Actions in Which Writ is Authorized— “Debt”—Torts by Nonresident—Unliquidated Damages. In an action for alienation of affections, claiming unliquidated damages in the sum of $10,000, a writ of attachment is issuahle against a nonresident defendant’s real property within the jurisdiction of the court, under the provisions of Rem. Code, § 648, authorizing its issuance upon the filing of an “affidavit showing that the defendant is indebted to the plaintiff” in a specified amount, and “that the defendant is not a resident of this state;” since a claim for unliquidated damages is an “indebtedness,” within the meaning of the statute.</p>