Case ID: mich_146/html/0488-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Montgomery, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DURYEA v. RAYMOND.
    1. Garnishment — Affidavit—Sufficiency.
    An affidavit in garnishment, made by an attorney, which states that the “plaintiff” (not the affiant) is justly apprehensive of a loss of the debt, unless a writ issues, is insufficient to confer jurisdiction to.issue the writ.
    3. Same — Amendment.
    Such affidavit is not subject to amendment.
    Error to Hillsdale; Chester, J.
    Submitted October 10, 1906.
    (Docket No. 30.)
    Decided December 3, 1906.
    Garnishment proceedings by Anna Duryea against James L. Ash and Amy Ash as garnishees of John W. Raymond. There was judgment for defendants, and plaintiff brings error..
    Affirmed.
    
      Charles M. Weaver and Merton Fitzpatrick, for appellant.
    
      Charles A. Shepard and Arthur L. Guernsey, for appellees.
   Montgomery, J.

The question which this record presents is whether an affidavit in garnishment, made by an attorney, which states that the plaintiff (not the affiant) is justly apprehensive of a loss of the debt unless a writ of garnishment issue, is sufficient' to confer jurisdiction to issue the writ, or subject to amendment. These questions must be answered in the negative, on the authority of Weimeister v. Manville, 44 Mich. 408. That case is in point, was decided a quarter of a century ago, and has never been modified, although it was distinguished from the case then under consideration in Williams v. Stock Board, 99 Mich. 80.

The circuit judge followed the ruling in Weimeister v. Manville, and his judgment is affirmed.

Grant, Blair, Ostrander, and Hooker, JJ., concurred.