Opinion
(Spring Term, 1800.)
When a defendant is served with a copy of a decree of the Court of Equity and refuses to perform it, an attachment is the proper mode of compelling performance.
This was a case in equity from Salisbury District; the record states, that at September Term, 1799, the complainants obtained a decree against the defendants, and had legally served them with a writ of execution of the said decree, as appears from the return made on said writ by the sheriff of Lincoln; it further states that William Beaty, one of the defendants, has absolutely refused, and still does refuse to perform the said decree; and the question reserved for the opinion of the Judges at their meeting this term was, what process is proper to enforce compliance with a decree made by the Superior Courts of Equity.
The defendant, William Beaty, having been duly served with a copy of the decree made in this case, and having refused to perform that decree, we are of opinion that an attachment ought to issue to compel a performance.
NOTE. — In decrees of a Court of Equity for any sum of money, execution may issue as at law. See 1 Rev. Stat., ch. 32, sec. 6.
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