Hawthorne v. Frost

Mr. Presiding Justice Friend

delivered the opinion of the court.

The plaintiff, Nathaniel Hawthorne, sought by garnishment to reach the funds of the Citizens Casualty Company of New York, a corporation, on a judgment obtained by him for an assault wilfully and wantonly committed against him by Jesse McGraw, the operator of a taxicab owned by Simeon Frost, Sr. Upon the pleadings, verdict of the jury, answer of the jury to a special interrogatory, the judgment entered in the principal suit on the general verdict of the jury, the transcript of the testimony of plaintiff, the oral stipulations of…