Supreme Court of New Jersey February 15, 1872 (Smith v. Warden)

Scudder, J.

The question proposed in this case certified is one of peculiar construction, and the result may be doubtful in policy, because it contravenes the usual course of distribution of a decedent’s estate; but it is so clearly within the express terms of the statute relating to attachments against absconding and absent debtors, that there is little room, for doubt or argument.