Watt-Harley-Holmes Hardware Co. v. Day

Watt-Harley-Holmes Hardware Company had a summons of garnishment served upon E. Y. L. Day. Day filed his answers to the summons, denying indebtedness, and the hardware company traversed the answer. These proceedings were had in the city court of Douglas, and it was agreed that the judge of that court, without the intervention of a jury, should try the issue formed by the traverse of the garnishee’s answer, on the following stipulation as to the facts: “That just before the time of the service of the summons of garnishment upon the said E. Y. L. Day, garnishee, that he owed the said Martha…