Humphries Mercantile Co. v. Brattain

1. The Humphries Mercantile Company, as plaintiff, obtained in the Justice Court a judgment against George Maness, as defendant, and Clark & Hottel, co-partners, were garnisheed upon execution. The garnishees answered that they had $84.94 for the defendant, but that one Ray Brattain claimed to own the funds in their hands. Plaintiff, desiring to raise and try an issue with the claimant over the ownership of the money, pursued the proper course in such a case and filed a traverse, as to the ownership of the fund, to the answer of the garnishee in which it denied that claimant *575owned the money…