Tinsley v. Savage

Plaintiffs obtained judgment in the St. Louis Circuit Court against the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Insurance Company, and an alias execution was issued out of the clerk’s office, directed to the sheriff of St. Charles county ; and the sheriff, acting under orders from the plaintiffs’ attorney, summoned Savage, the defendant, who was a resident of the latter county, as a garnishee,. Savage appeared in the St. Louis Circuit Court, and moved to quash the proceeding on the ground that the court had no jurisdiction over him. This motion was sustained at Special Term, but the court at General…