Stone v. Bowling

Judgment was rendered in this case in a justice of the peace court. There was no appeal from the original judgment.' Garnishment was issued out of the justice of the peace court and served on the Bank of Salem to require the bank to answer and account for funds alleged to be held by it as belonging to the appellant, W. J. Stone. Stone filed a statement or answer, in the garnishment proceeding, setting up that the money he had on deposit in the Bank of Salem was part of the proceeds from the sale of his homestead in said county, and that it was on that account exempt from seizure. This claim…