Case ID: ga-app_138/html/0841-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bell, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

51796.
    BATTLES v. BATTLES et al.
   Bell, Chief Judge.

This is a post-judgment garnishment case which was commenced prior to July 1, 1975, pursuant to our then existing garnishment statutes. The Supreme Court in Coursin v. Harper, 236 Ga. 729, held that the Georgia procedure for pre-judgment and post-judgment garnishment as it existed prior to July 1, 1975, failed to provide due process and was unconstitutional. Coursin controls and the judgment of the trial court for the plaintiff must be reversed.

Argued February 2, 1976

Decided June 8, 1976.

Page, Scrantom, Harris, McGlamry & Chapman, Joan Swift, for appellant.

H. Palmer Carr, Jr., Assistant U. S. Attorney, Schumacher, Collins & Oates, Samuel W. Oates, Jr., Thomas O. L. Collins, for appellees.

Judgment reversed.

Clark and Stolz, JJ., concur.