Pioneer Co-operative Co. v. Eagle & Phœnix Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
■ Certiorari. Corporations. Pleadings. Garnishment. Before Judge WILLIS. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1881. The Pioneer Co-operative Company brought suit against Louis Givins in a justice court, and procured garnishment to issue thereon directed to the Eagle and Phcenix Manufacturing Company. The garnishee, by its treasurer, answered that it was indebted to defendant in the sum of $13.90 for daily labor. Judgment was rendered against the defendant, Givins.
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■ Certiorari. Corporations. Pleadings. Garnishment. Before Judge WILLIS. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1881. The Pioneer Co-operative Company brought suit against Louis Givins in a justice court, and procured garnishment to issue thereon directed to the Eagle and Phcenix Manufacturing Company. The garnishee, by its treasurer, answered that it was indebted to defendant in the sum of $13.90 for daily labor. Judgment was rendered against the defendant, Givins. Counsel for the garnishee moved for its discharge, it appearing from the answer that the debt was for labor of defendant. The…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
This is a writ of error to the judgment of the superior court sustaining a certiorari.
Two points are made — one that the certiorari should have been dismissed because the treasurer of the corporation, describing himself as such, swears in the affidavit for the writ that “ I verily believe I have good cause for certiorari’,' and the other, because the superior court ruled wrong in holding that the- wages of a day laborer were exempt from garnishment.
1. In respect to the first point, the treasurer evidently was acting for the corporation, and meant I as treasurer of the…
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