Case Name: VAN VELZER v. HOUSTON INSTALLMENT CO.
Court: Texas Courts of Civil Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-11-13
Citations: 216 S.W. 469
Docket Number: No. 7780
Parties: VAN VELZER v. HOUSTON INSTALLMENT CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 216
Pages: 469–469

Head Matter:
VAN VELZER v. HOUSTON INSTALLMENT CO.
(No. 7780.)
(Court of Civil Appeals of Texas. Galveston.
Nov. 13, 1919.)
Appeal and error <©=>496 — Reversal op JUDGMENT AGAINST GARNISHEE NOT SHOWING COMPLIANCE WITH STATUTE.
There being no adequate basis shown for judgment within Rev. St. 1911, arts. 2108-2114, as to preparation and contents of transcript, judgment against garnishee containing no recitations that necessary statutory proceedings were had will be reversed, where record contains no writ in the nature of garnishment ór a showing that one was issued and no answer to any purported writ or fact authorizing judgment against garnishee in the absence of answer under articles 271-300.
Appeal from Harris County Court; Roy F. Campbell, Judge.
Controversy between A. C. Van Velzer and the Houston Installment Company. From a judgment against Van Velzer as garnishee, he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
A. C. Van Velzer, of Houston, pro se.

Opinion:
GRAVES, J.
This judgment must he reversed because the transcript filed in this court upon the appeal fails to disclose sufficient predicate for the action of the court below; a judgment in garnishment was there rendered against A. C. Van Velzer as garnishee, hut the record contains no writ of that nature, nor other showing that one was in fact ever issued; indeed, no answer of Van Velzer to any purpQrted writ of garnishment appears, nor do any facts which would have authorized a judgment against him in the absence of an answer. See R. S. arts. 271 to 300.
There is furthermore nothing from which this court might presume that these positive requirements of the statute in garnishment cases were complied with, there being in this respect merely the transcript of a cost biR and certain docket entries from the justice court, together with an amended original petition, which makes no reference to a garnishment proceeding, and a copy of an affidavit and bond in garnishment bearing the file marks at different dates of both the justice of the peace and the clerk of the county court at law.
The judgment appealed from contains no recitations that these necessary proceedings were had, being merely a straight recovery in favor of D. and U. S. Frosch, a co-partnership doing business under the firm name and style of Houston Installment Company against Van Velzer, as garnishee, and the sureties on his appeal bond, in the sum of $181.25, with further provision that its payment should operate as a discharge of any claim of plaintiffs therein against Mrs. Leona M. Hearne, as well as of any in her favor against Van Velzer.
Obviously, under R. S. arts. 2108 to 2114, no adequate basis for the judgment is shown; it is accordingly reversed, and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.