Case ID: ill-app_211/html/0301-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

William O. Holmberg, Appellee, v. General Electric Company, Appellant.
    Gen. No. 23,533.
    (Not to be reported in full.)
    Appeal from the Municipal Court of Chicago; the Hon. Harry M. Fishes, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1917.
    Reversed and remanded.
    Opinion filed May 14, 1918.
    Statement of the Case.
    Action by William O. Holmberg, plaintiff, against General Electric Company, defendant. Defendant was garnishee below in a proceeding whereby it was sought to recover for the use of W. O. Holmberg, a judgment creditor of one Charles P. Murchison. From a judgment against defendant for $189.60, it appeals.
    Cummins, Roemer, Flynn, Milkewitch & McKenna, for appellant.
    Joseph E. Winterbotham, for appellee.
    
      Abstract of the Decision.
    Gabnishment, § 66
      
       — when garnishee not liable. Payment of wages in advance by an employer after the service of a garnishment writ does not render him liable in the garnishment proceedings.
    
      
      See Illinois Notes Digest, Vols. £1 to XV, and Cumulative Quarterly, same topic and section number.
    
   Mr. Justice Matchett

delivered the opinion of the court.