Apparel Contractors, Inc. v. Vantage Properties, Inc.

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

The question on this appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in striking an intervention in a garnishment action. We hold that this ruling was an abuse of discretion because the intervenor was deprived of a substantial right to assert a security interest to the fund in question.

The writ of garnishment was obtained by Vantage Properties, Inc., against Arlington National Bank to collect a judgment Vantage had recovered against Apparel Manufacturing, Inc. The bank answered that it was indebted to the judgment debtor in an amount less than the amount of…