Davison-Paxon Co. v. Mutual Empire Clothing Co.

1. A garnishee, in answering a summons of garnishment in a suit against his employee who works for daily, weekly, or monthly wages, where the employee is indebted to the garnishee, is not entitled to offset the debt of the employee against only that portion of the wages due by the garnishee to the employee which is not exempt but which is subject to process of garnishment; but the garnishee, if he offsets *687tlie debt of the defendant against what the garnishee owes the defendant, must offset it without reference to whether any portion of the garnishee’s indebtedness to the defendant is exempt…