Holston International, Inc. v. Coulthard

*221This is a creditor’s rights controversy involving a matter of procedure. We consider whether the trial court erred in a garnishment proceeding by joining a third-party claimant and by adjudicating in that proceeding the validity of the third party’s claim to the fund which was the subject of the garnishment.

The facts are not in dispute. In January 1988, appellees Donald Coulthard and Anne K. Coulthard obtained a judgment in the court below against Thomas E. Dotson and Hubs & Wheels, Inc., in the principal sum of $425,481.37. At the time, an action brought by the judgment debtors against the…