Price v. Society for Savings
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action of scire facias against a garnishee, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Calhoun, J., upon plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant’s answer. Inasmuch as the demurrer presented all the questions involved in the case, the court, with the consent of the parties, reserved the case for the advice of this court.
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Action of scire facias against a garnishee, brought to the Court of Common Pleas in Hartford County and tried to the court, Calhoun, J., upon plaintiff’s demurrer to defendant’s answer. Inasmuch as the demurrer presented all the questions involved in the case, the court, with the consent of the parties, reserved the case for the advice of this court. The answer set up that Frederick T. Covel, the original debtor, had $600 on deposit in the Society for Savings, subject to the conditions stated in his deposit book, being a sum exceeding the plaintiff’s demand ; but that it was part of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaldwin, J.
The Revised Statutes of the United States, § 4747, provide that “ no sum of monej' due, or to become due, to any pensioner shall be liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by or under any legal or equitable process whatever, whether the same remains with the Pension Office, or any officer or agent thereof, or is in course of transmission to the pensioner entitled thereto, but shall inure wholly to the benefit of such pensioner.” This statute protects pension money from attachment so long as it remains due to the pensioner, but not after it has been actually paid over, and has come into his…
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