Lee v. Jackson Light & Traction Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In Error to tlie District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Edwin R. Holmes, Judge. Action by Dr. C. A. Dee, administrator, against the Jackson Light & Traction Company. After judgment for plaintiff, the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Company and others were summoned as garnishees.
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In Error to tlie District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi; Edwin R. Holmes, Judge. Action by Dr. C. A. Dee, administrator, against the Jackson Light & Traction Company. After judgment for plaintiff, the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Company and others were summoned as garnishees. Thereafter judgment was affirmed on defendants’ writ of error, and, the trial court having denied plaintiff’s motion to enter judgment against the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Company and dismissed the writ of garnishment, plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ERVIN, District Judge.
The facts in this case are that appellant, Lee, having recovered a judgment against the Jackson Light & Traction Company, in the Southern district of Mississippi, filed a suggestion of garnishment on said judgment against various parties, including the Merchants’ Bank & Trust Company; all of the parties being named in said suggestion.
There appears to have been issued by the clerk, under this suggestion, a writ of garnishment, which names on its face R. E. Kenning-ton and 36 others, and Jackson Daily News, and Auto Supply Company :
*722“We therefore command you to summon E. E.…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Jackson Light & Traction Co. v. LeeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1919
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