Canyon Lake Bank v. Townsend

POWERS, Justice.

Canyon Lake Bank appeals the trial court judgment awarding Clay Townsend a money judgment on the jury’s verdict in his suit for wrongful garnishment. We will reverse the judgment and here render judgment that Townsend take nothing by his suit.

Canyon Lake Bank obtained against Townsend a money judgment for debt, rendered February 12,1979 in the Comal County Court-at-Law. On March 28, 1979, the judgment having become final upon rendition by the judge, Tex.R.Civ.P.Ann. 657 (1967), 1 Canyon Lake Bank filed in the same court its application for a writ of garnishment, the judgment…