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20 Ala. 357

Morris v. Russell

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1852

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1852-01-15

Tried before the Hon. Geo. W. Stone. This was a proceeding by garnishment in favor of the defendant in error against the plaintiff in error in the court below. The summons of garnishment was executed upon the plaintiff in error in Mobile county, and the attachment suit out of which it grew was pending in the Circuit Court of Macon county. The garnishee failed to appear and answer, and judgment nisi was rendered against him.

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Decided 1852-01-15

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LIGON, J.

¶1In the case of Wood v. Russell, at the present term, the precise point arising in this case was presented, and we held, that, where a suit is pending in one county, and a summons of garnishment arising out of it is sued out, and sent to another county, by the sheriff of which it is returned executed, and a judgment nisi is taken against the garnishee for Ailing to appear and answer; the writ of scire facias, issuing on such judgment nisi, must be sent to and returned by the sheriff of the county in which the process of garnishment was served, or in which the garnishee resides, in order to sustain a judgment final against such garnishee.

¶2Such is not the case here, and the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

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