Sears v. Thompson

The appellant caused an attachment to issue against Lewis & Skarie,"and caused the appellees to be garnished as the supposed debtors of said partnership. The garnishees answered certain interrogatories propounded to them, and showed that said partnership, being indebted to them and others, executed a chattel mortgage on a stock of goods to secure such indebtedness; that the garnishees had caused the mortgage to be foreclosed, and sold the goods, and applied the proceeds in satisfaction of the mortgage, and that they were not, therefore, in any way indebted to the attachment debtors. The…