Harrell v. Mexico Cattle Co.

Gaines, Associate Justice.—

This was an original action brought by the appellee, a corporation, to set aside a judgment by default against it in a garnishment proceeding in which the appellant was plaintiff. Appellant on the 1st day of April, 1884, brought an action of debt in the District Court of Mitchell County against one Howell Brown, and on the same day caused to issue a writ of attachment against the property of the defendant, and also a writ of garnishment to appellee. The writ of garnishment was returned by the sheriff as executed on the same day it came to his hands “ by delivering…