Cummings v. Fearey

This controversy has already been before us, as reported in 41 Mich. 376, in which the present defendants were plaintiffs. There is very little in the present record which was not in the former one, and most of the questions now presented are of minor importance. One legal question, however, stands at the threshold of the case, on which some doubts have arisen.

By § 6504 of the Compiled Laws of 1871 it is declared *40that “every garnishee shall be allowed to deduct from the property in his hands all his demand against the principal defendant, of which he could have availed himself if he had not…