The special term decided this motion upon the ground that the complaint did not contain a cause of action which' justified an arrest, and therefore, by section 558 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the defendant was entitled to have the order of arrest vacated without regard to the facts contained in the affidavits.
Although much impressed by the cogent reasoning of the learned justice who decided this motion at special term, a *89careful examination, of the question has led me to a different conclusion, the reasons for which are contained in an opinion in the case of William Sloan et al. agt. Edward Livermore, which was argued at the same term of this court and involved the same question .(See ante, p. 85).
We deem it unnecessary to repeat the reasoning in this case and refer to the opinion in the ease above mentioned.
The order of the special term must be reversed, but without costs of this appeal as the question is new.
Davis, P. J., and Beady, J., concurred.
Note.— We understand that an appeal has been taken in the above cause to the court of appeals, where the question as to the true construction of section 558 will be finally settled. Should this court concur in the views expressed in the two foregoing opinions of the general term we think the section should be stricken from the statute book as meaningless. [Ed.