Crescent Insurance v. Bear

The appellee obtained judgment for $331.40 against Louis C. Apley, and issued a writ of garnishment to appellant, who, in answer to the writ, set up that it was not at the time of the service thereof indebted to the defendant, Apley, “ except in so far as he might be interested in an *53indebtedness of this garnishee of $500 then due to the firm of Wilkins & Apley, composed of the defendant and one James Wilkins, and that it has not since the service of the. said garnishment been indebted to him nor them, as aforesaid,” &c. The reply or “ traverse ” to this answer is: •“ That the said $500 in…