Livingston Finance Corp. v. Baudin

Plaintiff obtained judgment against several defendants, among them J. W._ Barfield, who was a motorman in the employ of New Orleans Public Service Inc. Plaintiff then caused garnishment proceedings to issue against New Orleans' Public Service Inc. and, for reasons, best known to it, repeated these proceedings at such frequent intervals that they more or less resembled machine gun fire.

Garnishee prepared answers to all of these garnishment proceedings and at different times handed these answers, always in due time, to the Clerk of Court, or one of his deputies.

On one occasion two such answers…