Thomas v. Sturges

HAND?, J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an attachment instituted by the defendant in error against one Cherry, and executed upon Ganaway, as a garnishee, who appeared and answered, denying any indebtedness to Cherry, or that he had any goods or property in his hands belonging to him. The plaintiff traversed the answer, and the garnishee having died, his administrator was made a party, and the issue was after-wards tried and the following evidence was adduced. The plaintiff proved, by the deputy-sheriff who served the attachment, that Ganaway told him that he had bought a tract…