RPS, Inc. v. Travel Max International, Inc.

We reverse three determinations in proceedings to collect a money judgment. First, we hold that it was error to dissolve the writ of garnishment. The judgment creditor, who is the garnishor, demanded a jury trial on the claimant’s contention that the funds in the bank account subjected to the writ of garnishment belonged solely to it and not to the judgment debtor. When the garnishor demands a jury on this issue, the statutes require the judge to empanel a jury to try the issue of ownership of the property sought to be garnished. See § 77.16(1), Fla. Stat. (2001) (“If any person other than…