Ebbing v. Hassler

Appellee sued the Detroit Edge Tool Works, a Michigan corporation, for a broker’s commission, and, upon allegations that the Pekin Wood Products Company, an Arkansas corporation, domiciled in Phillips County, was indebted to the defendant, caused a writ of garnishment to issue requiring the Arkansas corporation to answer in what sum it was indebted to the defendant. The garnishee filed an answer, admitting indebtedness to the defendant in excess of the sum sued for. The defendant filed no answer.

An intervention was filed, however, by W. E. Ebbing, as trustee for the defendant, in which he…