Gilham Electric Co. v. Daniel

The issuance of a garnishment upon a purchase-money attachment is nowhere expressly prohibited. In Reid v. Tucker, 56 Ga. 278, it seems to be assumed that process of garnishment can issue upon a purchase-money attachment. In that case a general indebtedness by the garnishee to the defendant was caught by the garnishment, and it was held that only the property described in the affidavit for attachment could be levied on by the garnishment.

Under the general law, as codified in section 5079 of the Civil Code of 1910 (Ga. L. 1855-56, pp. 25, 33), it is provided, with reference to attachments…