Commonwealth of Mass. v. Davis

BLAIR, Justice.

On June 23, 1937, appellant, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, sued appel-lee, Edgar B. Davis, upon a Massachusetts income tax judgment, and on the same day ran a garnishment on the United North and South Development Company. On October 24, 1939, in an ancillary garnishment suit or proceeding, the trial court quashed the garnishment upon the motion of garnishee and the intervening defendant, Edgar B. Davis, because of certain alleged defects in the affidavit and garnishment bond; the answer of the garnishee having shown that Davis owned 186,751 of the 200,000 shares of the…