Gamble v. Central Railroad & Banking Co.
Supreme Court of Georgia
Judgments. Assignment. Title. Garnishment. Liens. Promissory notes. Interest and usury. Exemptions. Misnomer. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Adams. Chat-ham superior court.
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Judgments. Assignment. Title. Garnishment. Liens. Promissory notes. Interest and usury. Exemptions. Misnomer. Jurisdiction. Before Judge Adams. Chat-ham superior court. June term, 1887. W. A. Gamble recovered a verdict against the Central Railroad and Banking Company for $7,750, which was set aside by the grant of a new trial November 25? 1884; and this was affirmed by the Supreme Court (74 Oa 586).^ — On September 19 and 27, and October 6,1884, respectively, J. P. Sarrazin’s Son & Co., M. C. and J. F. Kiser & Co., and Beck & Gregg served summonses of garnishment on the railroad company,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. All judgments are assignable. Code, §§2776, 3797. But are they assignable before they are j udgments ? That is, when they are in merely potential, not actual, existence?
Here the plaintiff, in an action of tort for a personal injury, having obtained a verdict for $4,000 damages, attempted, not for any new consideration, but in payment of pre-existing debts, to assign to his wife an interest in the prospective judgment to the extent of $700, and to his brother a like interest oí $300. Upon the following day, judgment on the verdict was entered up and signed, whereby…
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