Case ID: ga_26/html/0289-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

B. W. & J. P. Force & Co., plaintiffs in error, vs. W. L. Hubbard, et al., defendants in error.
    An affidavit by the creditor that the defendant is indebted so much upon a fi. fa. issuing upon the judgment specified, is sufficient as to the amount of the indebtedness under the attachment and garnishment Act of 1856.
    Garnishment, Fulton Superior Court, April Term, 1858 Judge Bull presiding.
    The affidavit upon which the summons in garnishment in this case issued, stated that “ defendant was indebted to plaintiffs upon a fi. fa. issued upon a judgment.” Counsel for defendant moved that the garnishment be discharged, on the ground that the affidavit was insufficient. The Corn-granted the motion, and plaintiffs excepted.
    Green B. Haygood, for plaintiffs in error.
    Glenn & Cooper, contra.
    
   By the. Court.

Lumpkin J.,

delivering the opinion.

Formerly, the attachment laws were constructed strictly; one of the provisions of which was, that any attachment sued out and returned, otherwise than the Act itself prescribed, should be void. The late law, by providing that a substantial compliance with its provisions, shall be sufficient has intentionally overturned the old doctrine.

In this case the party swears, that there is so much due him upon the ft. fa. issuing upon the judgment, instead of deposing as to the indebtedness upon the judgment itself. We are clear that the affidavit is sufficient. What is due upon an execution issuing upon a judgment, is due upon the judgment upon which it issued, and no more and no less. The judgment is the evidence of the debt; the ft. fa. the process for enforcing it. To swear, as the creditor did in this caso, that there is so much due upon the ft. fa. issuing upon a particular judgment, is, in substance, to swear that there is so much due upon the judgment itself. In other words, there cannot be one sum due upon the judgment, and another upon the execution.

Judgment reversed.