Kirby v. Giddings & Giddings
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Washington. Tried below before Hon. John Alexander, Special District Judge. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
Appellant was judgment creditor of Mrs. M. E. Wood, and caused a writ of garnishment to be served on Giddings & Giddings, bankers, with whom Mrs. Wood had on deposit eight hundred dollars.
The writ of garnishment was served on January 6, 1888, and garnishees answered by admitting the deposit, but setting up that the money in *680their hands was a part of the proceeds of the homestead of Mrs. Wood, recently sold, which she contemplated investing in another home at once, and was in the act of doing so when the writ was served on them.
The substance further of their answer will…
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