Emmons, McKee & Co. v. Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Garnishment. Laborers. Certiorari. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. September adjourned term, 1887. Emmons, McKee & Company sued Dempsey in a justice’s court, and on March 16, 1886, obtained judgment.
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Garnishment. Laborers. Certiorari. Before Judge Maddox. Eloyd superior court. September adjourned term, 1887. Emmons, McKee & Company sued Dempsey in a justice’s court, and on March 16, 1886, obtained judgment. They had previously caused a summons of garnishment tc be served on the telephone company, and on the day the judgment was rendered- that company answered, through its agent and manager, as follows: “ At the time of said service upon him, he, as agent of said company or as manager or otherwise, had no property or effects in his hands belonging to defendant. Nor had he, as .such agent…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs in garnishment, after an answer by the garnishee disclosing that the fund in controversy arose from the wages of daily labor, filed a traverse alleging, amongst other things, that the defendant in execution, the debtor, was not a laborer within the meaning of the statute. The justice’s court, according to one statement in the *763record, dismissed the traverse and discharged the garnishee according to another statement, dismissed the traverse and the garnishment. The court below took this latter statement, and treated the case as one in which, though a…
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