Hooten v. Conklin

The question here is whether a fund in the registry of the chancery court, deposited in the form of a cash bond, may be reached by a writ of garnishment after the chancellor has filed an opinion awarding a portion of the fund to the garnishment debtor.

Crabtree, the garnishment debtor, brought suit in the Union Chancery Court to impress a lien upon oil and gas interests owned by the appellant Hays, a nonresident of the state. To keep the suit from interfering with the payment of oil runs Hays deposited $6,500 in court, as a cash bond for the payment of any judgment Crabtree might obtain. The…