Rees v. Peck-King Mortgage Co.

Under an execution issued from a justice’s court, on a judgment rendered therein in plaintiff’s favor, a writ of garnishment was served on the Peek-King Mortgage Company to appear and answer the usual interrogatories touching its indebtedness to the defendants Swearingen. Garnishee duly appeared and to each of the questions whether, at the time of the service of the garnishment, it had in its possession or under its control any property, money or effects of the defendant and whether it owed defendant any money then or now, answered in the negative.

To this the plaintiff filed a denial which…