Montgomery Candy Co. v. Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Co.
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. William H. Ti-iomas. Action by the Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company against S. B. Kent. From a judgment for plaintiff, on garnishment directed to the Montgomery Candy Company, the garnishee appeals.
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Appeal from Montgomery City Court. Heard before Hon. William H. Ti-iomas. Action by the Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company against S. B. Kent. From a judgment for plaintiff, on garnishment directed to the Montgomery Candy Company, the garnishee appeals. The Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company obtained a judgment in the city court of Montgomery at the Octoher term, 1909, against one S. B. Kent for the sum of $118.15, and on February 8, 1910, procured garnishment on said judgment, on proper affidavit to be issued to the Montgomery Candy Company. On the 11th day of February, 1910, the garnishee filed a…
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, P. J.,
A garnishee’s denial of indebtedness in his written answer to the writ may be overcome by the disclosure made on his oral examination, required as authorized by the statute; and when, on the facts as so disclosed, it is made to appear that the garnishee *406was indebted to the defendant after the service of the writ, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment against the garnishee upon his answer, without contesting it. Code, § 4316;—White et al v. Kahn, 103 Ala. 308, 15 South. 595.
In the case at bar the oral answer of the garnishee disclosed that between the dates of the service of the…
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