Fearey v. Cummings

The plaintiffs having brought suit against Nellis to recover a little less than one thousand dollars upon contract, proceeded on that footing to sue the defendants Cummings as garnishees under the act of March 16, 1861 (Comp. L., p. 1818), as amended in 1877. Public Acts of 1877 [No. 81], p. 63.

The oath for process was made June 6, 1878, and claimed that the parties in question as garnishees had property, money, goods, chattels, credits and effects in their hands' and under their control belonging to Nellis, and further that they were indebted to him.

A summons for them was thereupon issued,…