Crane ex rel. Niemeyer v. Illinois Merchants Trust Co.

By this appeal, defendant seeks to have reversed a judgment against it for $2,878.60 in a garnishment preceding.

In August, 1924, Grover C. Niemeyer, an attorney, recovered a judgment against Herbert Prentice Crane, Jr., upon a promissory note for $2,500, given for services rendered prior to September 15, 1921. An execution was issued at once and returned nulla bona, whereupon a garnishment proceeding was instituted in the name of the judgment debtor, for the use of Niemeyer, against defendant. In its answer to the interrogatories filed, the defendant stated that it was not indebted to Crane…