Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. v. Satterthwaite

Speakman, J.,

delivering the opinion of the Court:

The chief question in controversy is whether the garnishment proceedings resulted in the attachment of any goods, chattels, rights, credits, money or effects of Mr. Warrick, in the hands of the garnishee.

The garnishee contends that at common law commercial paper could not be seized and sold upon execution, and that the checks, even if they had been accepted by Mr. Satterthwaite, would not constitute the kind of property which was subject to attachment in the hands of the garnishee.

In reply the plaintiff says (1) the proposition that at common…