Phelps v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fé Railroad
Supreme Court of Kansas
Error from, Shawnee Distriet Court. • Action between Phelps and two others, plaintiffs, and the Railroad Company, defendant, in certain garnishee proceedings. Trial at the January Term, 1882, of the district court, and judgment for defendant. The plaintiffs bring the case here. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
*166The opinion of the court was delivered by
Brewer, J.:
The only question in this case is, the extent of the liability of a garnishee. The cause was tried in the court below on an agreed statement of facts. From that agreed statement it appears that on the 14th day of January, 1881, plaintiffs commenced an action before W. E. Hazen, a justice of. the peace, against one Clarence Bryant, to recover the sum of $113.17, and op that day caused a garnishee summons in- said cause to be served on the defendant, returnable on the 25th day of January, 1881. On the 25th day of January, 1881, they recovered…
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