Valley Butter Co. v. Minnesota Coöperative Creameries Ass'n

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Moschzisker,

The court below refused to quash a writ of foreign attachment ; defendant has appealed. The principal questions involved are, (1) Does the record show that the funds attached were received by the garnishee as a special agent of defendant fixed with a trust relation to the latter? and (2) Should the writ have been quashed on that ground?

Plaintiff corporation summoned itself as garnishee, for the funds in question were in its own hands. It is well established that a plaintiff in foreign attachment may attach money in its own hands: Pasquinelli v. Southern…