Brooks v. Owen

This controversy arises out of the effort to collect a judgment purporting to be against certain lodges of the Masonic Order at Seymour, known as Myrtle Lodge No. 355 and Cryptic Chapter No. 34, by the garnishment of supposed debtors to the judgment defendants. The trustees of the lodges intervened, and they and the garnishees appealed from the judgments against the latter for the various amounts shown by the answers of the garnishees to be owed by them, or in their hands belonging to the judgment defendants.

The principal question raised by the garnishees and interveners relates to the…