Bassett v. McCarty

This is an appeal by plaintiff from an order quashing a writ of garnishment.

The facts are as follows: Appellant commenced an action in the superior court against respondents McCarty, husband and wife, to recover the sum of one thousand dollars loaned to respondent husband. Thereafter, on May 29, 1939, appellant caused a writ of garnishment to be issued, directed to respondents Hughes as garnishee defendants, who, for convenience, will be referred to, at times, as garnishees.

Prior to the time of service of the writ, respondent Roy McCarty had brought an action for slander against respondent M.…