Chamberlain v. Mobile Fish & Oyster Co.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Circuit Court of -Mobile. ■ Tried before the Hon. William S. Anderson. ■-..The appellant, Jennie O. Chamberlain, brought an •action.against Whiting Ames, in which a judgment was recovered Tn favor of the'plaintiff. Upon this judgment a writ of garnishment was issued and served upon the Mobile Fish & Oyster Company. The proceedings in the present case were had upon a contest filed by the plaintiff of the answer of the garnishee.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of -Mobile. ■ Tried before the Hon. William S. Anderson. ■-..The appellant, Jennie O. Chamberlain, brought an •action.against Whiting Ames, in which a judgment was recovered Tn favor of the'plaintiff. Upon this judgment a writ of garnishment was issued and served upon the Mobile Fish & Oyster Company. The proceedings in the present case were had upon a contest filed by the plaintiff of the answer of the garnishee. The faicts-of the case are sufficiently stated in the opinion. From a. judgmént refusing a motion of the plaintiff to strike the claim of defendant’s…
1Opinion of the CourtHaeals'On, J.
The plaintiff recovered a judgment against Whiting Ames in the circuit court, of Mobile county, on the 21th of April, 1896, for $668.30; and garnished the Mobile Fish & Oyster Company, on the 19th December, 1900, ■ as debtor to the defendant. That company, on the 21th April, 1901, answered denying indebtedness, which answer' was; on the same day, duly contested by the plaintiff. The defendant,, Ames, on the 25th November, 1901, filed with the clerk of the court, under' section 2059, a claim .of exemption of ,his wages from the garnishee, setting' out that they owed him wages at $50 a month…
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