Packard Phoenix Motor Co. v. American-LaFrance & Foamite Corp.

This suit was brought by the Packard Phoenix Motor Company against the American-La-France and Foamite Corporation (Pacific) to recover the sum of $2,100 brokerage commissions alleged to have been earned in negotiating a sale for defendant of a fire truck and equipment to the city of Phoenix. Coincident with bringing the suit plaintiff caused to be issued and served upon the city of Phoenix a writ of garnishment. The garnishee’s answer, filed March 14, 1929, admitted an indebtedness to the defendant of $9,750. On March 28th one B. L. Rudderow, a taxpayer of the city, petitioned the court for…