Booth v. Brooke & Co.

Booth sued Lyon to the December, 1906, term of one of the justice’s courts in Atlanta, and thereupon caused summons of garnishment to issue to Jones, requiring him to answer whether he was indebted to Lyon. On January 14, 1907, judgment was rendered in the principal action in favor of Booth against Lyon. On January 21 Jones answered the summons of garnishment under oath, stating that he owed Lyon, at the date of the service of the summons of garnishment, a sum in excess of that recovered by Booth against Lyon in the principal suit. On January 26 Brooke & Company filed what purported to be a…