Trowbridge & Jennings v. Means
Supreme Court of Arkansas
This was a proceeding under the statute of garnishment, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges. James Means, having obtained judgment, in the same Court, against Amos Hartley, sued out a writ of garnishment under the statute, against Samuel G. Trowbridge and Richard T. Jennings, as partners, to subject to his judgment any debt due by them to Hartly.
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This was a proceeding under the statute of garnishment, determined in the Pulaski Circuit Court, in December, 1842, before the Hon. John J. Clendenin, one of the circuit judges. James Means, having obtained judgment, in the same Court, against Amos Hartley, sued out a writ of garnishment under the statute, against Samuel G. Trowbridge and Richard T. Jennings, as partners, to subject to his judgment any debt due by them to Hartly. In August, 1842, he filed his allegations and interrogatories — to which, in December, they answered that Hartley had recovered judgment against them for a specified…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Paschal, J.
The Court are called on in this case to decide the single question whether or not a judgment debtor can be held to answer under our statute of garnishment.
The first section of Revised Statutes, chapter 69, page, 424, is in the following words: “In all cases where any plaintiff may have obtained a judgment, in any court of record, or before any justice of the peace of this State, and such plaintiff shall have reason to believe that any other person is indebted to the defendant, or has in his hands or possession goods and chattels, moneys, credits, and effects, belonging…
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