Bostwick Supply Co. v. Hodgson Cotton Co.

The ITodgson Cotton Company held a promissory note of Copeland, secured by a mortgage upon a specified crop of cotton, and, after crediting the proceeds of certain bales delivered to it by the mortgagor, obtained a general judgment against him for the balance. To collect this balance it sued out garnishment against the Bostwick Supply Company, which answered not indebted; and on a trial of a traverse of this answer the judge directed a verdict for the principal and interest due on the fi. fa. The garnishee excepts to the overruling of its motion for new trial, on the general ground that no…