Dixie National Bank v. Chase

HUBBART, Judge.

This is an appeal by a garnishee bank from an adverse final judgment entered in a garnishment proceeding after a non-jury trial. The central issue presented for review is the extent of a garnishee bank’s liability to a garnishor creditor when (1) a proper writ of garnishment is served on the garnishee bank, and (2) an incomplete answer is thereafter filed which omits one of two accounts held at the bank by the defendant debtor, but which answer is later corrected by an amended answer. We hold that under Section 77.06(1), Florida Statutes (1983), the garnishee bank is liable to…