Keister v. Donovan

In this case defendant Donovan seeks to defeat a judgment obtained against him as garnishee defendant in a suit instituted by plaintiff against Samuel W. Matice, principal defendant, on the ground that the debt owed by said Donovan to said Matice, which it was sought to reach by garnishment, was a labor debt upon which claims of lien for labor had been filed. Plaintiff began a suit on April 6, 1911, in justice’s court, before T. H. Burch, a justice of the peace of Kent county, in an action of assumpsit upon a promissory note which he held against defendant Matice. On the same date, in the…