Haley v. Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad

John J. Haley began an action by attachment against Patrick Hubbard before a justice of the peace *113in Kansas City. The constable executed, the writ, and returned that Patrick Hubbard could not be found and that he garnished the appellant “by delivering a copy of the notice to D. "W. Steal, nearest agent of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad Company.”

The garnishee answered, stating that at the time of the service of the garnishment on the 23rd day of July, 1879, it owed Hubbard $21.87 wages as laborer from June 1st to June 30th, 1879; that the agent on whom the notice of garnishment was served,…