McConnell v. Brace-Beluche & Co.

This is an appeal by intervening petitioner, in garnishment proceedings begun by attachment, from an order and judgment awarding the fund in controversy to plaintiff. The facts in the case are not disputed. One McConnell sued out a writ of attachment in the municipal court of Chicago against Brace-Beluche & Company of Buffalo, New York, claiming that an indebtedness was due to him in the sum of $798.38. Peacock Cleaners & Dyers, Ltd., a corporation, was summoned as garnishee and answered that at the time of the service of the writ it was indebted to defendant debtor, Brace-Beluche & Company,…