Case Name: Thomas J. Peel v. Farmers' and Merchants' Bank
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1881-03-19
Citations: 1 White & W. 71
Docket Number: No. 1574, Op. Book No. 3, p. 660
Parties: Thomas J. Peel v. Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank.
Judges: 
Reporter: Condensed Reports of Decisions in Civil Causes in the Court of Appeals (White & Wilson)
Volume: 1
Pages: 71–72

Head Matter:
Thomas J. Peel v. Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank.
(No. 1574, Op. Book No. 3, p. 660.)
Appeal from Lamar County.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Hurt, J.
§ 180. Garnishee; not liable on negotiable note, unless, etc. It is impossible to charge the garnishee as the debtor of the defendant, unless it appear affirmatively that at the time of the garnishment the defendant had a cause of action against him for the recovery of a legal debt due or to become due by afflux of time. Thus, where the garnishee answered that he had executed to the defendant a negotiable promissory note, upon which he still owed a balance, it devolved upon the plaintiff to prove, in order to hold the garnishee liable, that the note had been transferred by the defendant before the service of the writ of garnishment. [Drake on Attach. § 575; Bassett v. Garthwaite, 22 Tex. 230; Iglehart v. Moore, 21 Tex. 501.]
Beversed and remanded.