Moultrie Grocery Co. v. Holmes-Hartsfield Co.

1. Where a sale of merchandise in bulk is made without compliance with the provisions of the act approved August 17, 1903 (Civil Code of 1910, §§ 3226 et seq.), the purchaser is liable in garnishment to a creditor of the vendor, although the purchaser may have disposed of the goods prior to the service on him of the process of garnishment. Jaques & Tinsley Co. v. Carstarphen Co., 131 Ga. 1 (62 S. E. 82). The fact that the debtor was a partnership, and that prior to the illegal sale to the garnishee one of the partners had sold out his interest to the other, would not defeat the -rights of the…