Odum & Cochran v. Macon & Birmingham Railway Co.

Odum & Cochran obtained a judgment against McLaughlin in the justice’s court, and summoned the Macon & Birminghan Railway Company as garnishee. ’ The garnishee answered *793that it was not indebted to the defendant, and this answer was traversed. The traverse having gone to the appeal in the justice’s court, a verdict in favor of the traverse was returned by the jury. Objection was made to the plaintiffs entering a judgment against the garnishee on this verdict, upon the ground that they had no valid- judgment against McLaughlin, it being contended that the judgment was void under the bankrupt…