Wells v. East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Railroad
Supreme Court of Georgia
Garnishment. Debtor and Creditor. Attachment. Railroad Corporations. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Bran-ham. Whitfield Superior Court. ' October Term, 1884. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
'The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company was served with summons of garnishment to answer what it was indebted to, or what effects it had belonging to, the defendant in an attachment in a justice’s court in Whitfield county. The summons was served on the agent of the company residing and attending to its business at one of its stations in said county of Whitfield. The corporation acts under charters from each of the states through which its road passes and in which it transacts business. The answer to this summons disclosed this fact, and that it was indebted…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Kyle & Co. v. MontgomerySupreme Court of Georgia · 1884
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