Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 15, 1835 (Rockwood v. Varnum)

Shaw C. J.

delivered the opinion of the Court. This case is certainly not without considerable difficulty, arising from the complicated mode of attachment on mesne process, allowed bj the laws of this Commonwealth.

*293The'first question is, whether the goods in Chenery’s shop were well attached by the plaintiff, so that he acquired such lier upon them as an attachment upon mesne process creates.