Allen v. Gibbons

CLEMENS, Commissioner.

Plaintiffs had a $5,000 uncontested judgment against defendant Jane C. Gibbons, the daughter of the garnishee’s insured. Plaintiffs then garnished the insurer, appellant Aetna Casualty and Surety Company, and got a verdict and judgment against Aetna for the $5,000 plus interest and costs. Aetna has appealed, attacking (1) the validity of plaintiffs’ original $5,000 judgment on the ground it was indefinite and, thus, insufficient to support plaintiffs’ garnishment, and (2) the failure of plaintiffs’ evidence in the garnishment trial to show that the original defendant was…