Foley v. Union House Furnishing Co.

This is an action for damages for wrongful and malicious garnishment. Tried to a jury, a verdict was returned in favor of plaintiff, and against defendant, for $2,350 actual damages and $850 punitive damages, or for the total sum of $3,200. Thereafter defendant's motion for a new trial was sustained upon two assigned grounds of the motion; and from the order so entered, plaintiff has duly appealed.

Plaintiff, by trade, is a maintenance man, experienced in the work of taking care of motors and pipe lines and of setting up motors for operating machinery. In 1925, after eleven and a half years'…