Home Owners' Loan Corp. v. Hardie

delivered tbe opinion of tbe Court.

Tbe parties are designated as in tbe trial court. Tbe appellant, Hardie & Caudle, recovered a judgment against R. C. O’Rear, an employee of defendant Home Owners’ Loan Corporation. Tbe execution issued against O’Rear on behalf of Hardie & Caudle, plaintiffs, was levied by garnishment upon defendant, bis employer. Tbe defendant pleaded immunity from suit. It averred that it was an instrumentality of tbe United States government not subject to garnishment for tbe debt of its employee. Tbe trial judge overruled tbe plea, entered a conditional judgment, and…