Laurel v. Turner
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Jones county. Hon. John E. Enochs, Judge. Turner, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the city of Laurel, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case. We t.bintr the judgment rendered in the garnishment proceedings in the justice court against the city of Laurel, against A. J. Lyon & Co., was merely irregular and not void.
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From the circuit court of Jones county. Hon. John E. Enochs, Judge. Turner, appellee, was plaintiff in the court below; the city of Laurel, appellant, was defendant there. From a judgment in plaintiff’s favor the defendant appealed to the supreme court. The opinion states the case. We t.bintr the judgment rendered in the garnishment proceedings in the justice court against the city of Laurel, against A. J. Lyon & Co., was merely irregular and not void. The justice court has jurisdiction of the city of Laurel and the filing of the objection to the garnishment did not vitiate the jurisdiction.…
1Opinion of the CourtCalhoon, J.
A. -I. Lyon & Go. recovered judgment for about $90 in the court of a justice of the peace against W. I). Turner, the appellee, and then garnished the city of Laurel, the appellant, as a debtor of Turner. The city answered by objecting to being garnished, because a municipality was not subject to such a proceeding. The justice erroneously overruled this, and gave judgment accordingly. The ■ city appealed, and the appeal, for some reason not disclosed, was dismisséd and after-wards it paid Lyon & Go. the amount of the judgment, and obtained an assignment thereof to itself. The city thereupon…
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