Burkhalter v. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co.

This was a contest between two judgment creditors over the distribution of a fund brought into court under process of garnishment. Both judgments were obtained in the city court of Beidsville, but the contest arose and was heard in the superior *313court of Tattnall county. The creditor claiming to hold the senior judgment admittedly procured the same after the defendant had been adjudged to be a lunatic and committed to the Georgia State Sanitarium as such, although service was perfected prior to the institution of lunacy proceedings and at a time when the defendant was presumably sane. The…