Wheeler v. Walter J. Bryson Co.

This hill was filed to reach by attachment and garnishment on the City of Nashville funds owing by the City to the defendant Bryson Company, a non-resident corporation. The justness of complainant’s debt against Bryson Company is not questioned, and a decree pro confesso was permitted to be taken as to it. However, the City demurred on the ground that a municipal corporation is not subject to garnishment, except insofar as expressly authorized by Chap. 29, Acts of 1921, which, it is said, must be limited in application to “officers and employees,” and that Bryson Company, a contracting…