Weaver v. Davis

The only question presented by this record is, can a special master in chancery be subjected to a garnishee process, so that money may be reached, which he, as such special master, has in his hands, being proceeds of a sale of land in a partition suit, and belonging to the defendant in the attachment, and which the court appointing him had ordered him to pay over to the defendant ? The circuit court decided he was not so subject, and discharged the garnishee.

To reverse this decision, the cause is brought here by agreement, and on the part of the attaching creditor, it is insisted, as the…