Jacinto Lorenzo Lopez Laborde v. Pablo Ubarri
| Decision Date | 17 May 1909 |
| Docket Number | No. 194,194 |
| Citation | 53 L.Ed. 955,214 U.S. 173,29 S.Ct. 552 |
| Parties | JACINTO LORENZO LOPEZ LABORDE et al., Plffs. in Err., v. PABLO UBARRI and Modesto Ubarri |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
Messrs. Willis Sweet and George H. Lamar for plaintiffs in error.
Mr. John Maynard Harlan for defendants in error.
This is the same suit that has been decided already. Ubarri y Yramategui v. Laborde, 214 U. S. 168, 53 L. ed.—, 29 Sup. Ct. Rep. 549. There is presented here a subordinate question as to the right of the plaintiffs in error, who were also the plaintiffs below, to retain an attachment against property alleged to belong to two nonresident heirs of Pablo Ubarri. The district court ordered the complaint to be dismissed as to these heirs, and the attachment against any of their property to be dissolved, on the principle that has been laid down more than once by this court, that, in the courts of the United States, 'attachment is but an incident to a suit, and, unless the suit can be maintained, the attachment must fall.' Ex parte Des Moines & M. R. Co. 103 U. S. 794, 796, 26 L. ed. 461, 462. 'Unless the suit can be maintained' means, of course, unless the court has jurisdiction over the person of the defendant. See further Toland v. Sprague, 12 Pet. 300, 330, 336, 9 L. ed. 1093, 1105, 1107; Chaffee v. Hayward, 20 How. 208, 15 L. ed. 804; Clark v. Wells, 203 U. S. 164, 51 L. ed. 138, 27 Sup. Ct. Rep. 43.
It was admitted at the argument before us that, if the suit against the other defendant should fail, as it has, there was no need to decide this case. But it must be disposed of in some way, and we are of opinion that the judgment below should be affirmed. The suit purports to be against the succession. Yet the property sought to be attached is alleged in the petition to belong to the defendants, and is not alleged even to have belonged to the succession in the past. It seems from what was admitted at the argument that a part, at least, never did. But, if it had belonged to the succession, we gather from incidental testimony in the main case, from the allegations of separate titles in the petition for attachment, and from admissions at the bar, that it had been divided, and thereafter the liability of the heirs, if any, was personal, as explained in the other case. Even if a suit still could be maintained against the succession when there was no property left in the inheritance, the private property of...
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