Walker v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railroad

The only question in this case is whether *448any recovery could be had against the defendant corporation as a garnishee, under the disclosure filed, or by resort to further evidence.

It has been uniformly held that no recovery can be had •against a garnishee in a justice’s court, except upon such liability as is admitted by the disclosure. There must be no ambiguity. Spears v. Chapman 43 Mich. 541; Weirich v. Scribner 44 Mich. 73 ; Sexton v. Amos 39 Mich. 695 ; Hackley v. Kanitz 39 Mich. 398; Lorman v. Phœnix Ins. Co. 33 Mich. 65.

The disclosure, in its original, supplemented by its amplified…