Boyd & Boyd v. Cobbs

This is a proceeding in garnishment. Cobbs obtained judgment against R. W. Brewer, and sued out a process in garnishment against Boyd & Boyd as partners, as the debtors of Brewer. The proceeding, up to the judgment on the answer of the garnishees, seems to have been regular. Only one of the Boyds answered the summons in garnishment. In his answer he discloses the fact that he purchased Brewer’s interest in a certain mercantile partnership with his son and another, for the sum of eight hundred dollars. For this sum, Boyd and his son, as partners, gave Brewer their promissory note, payable on…