Valley National Bank v. Brown

JACOBSON, Chief Judge, Division 1.

This appeal asks the court to determine the liability of a garnishee-defendant who, following the instructions of a judgment creditor, impounded funds belonging to an innocent third party.

Appellees-plaintiffs, Edward Brown and Lillian R. Brown, brought an action against the appellant-defendant, the Valley National Bank of Arizona, a national banking association (Bank) ; Union Guaranty Co., an Arizona corporation; that corporation’s firm of attorneys and an individual attorney thereof, seeking damages for an alleged wrongful garnishment of funds deposited by…