Turner v. Williams

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This appeal relates to the rights of precedence of rival litigants, garnisher, garnishee, and interpleader, all of whom were creditors of the defendant debtor, I. F. Williams.

In 1920, Williams was a tenant farmer, thresherman and grain buyer at Menlo in Thomas county. The precipitate decline in the price of wheat in the autumn of that year caused his insolvency.

Westerman, interpleader, was the owner of a quarter section of wheat land which was farmed by Williams on equal shares of the crop. Williams raised about 2,700 or 2,800 bushels of…