Case Name: Tompkins Machine & Implement Co. v. C. F. Schmidt
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1890-06-10
Citations: 4 Willson 194
Docket Number: No. 6302
Parties: Tompkins Machine & Implement Co. v. C. F. Schmidt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Condensed Reports of Decisions in Civil Causes in the Court of Appeals
Volume: 4
Pages: 194–195

Head Matter:
Tompkins Machine & Implement Co. v. C. F. Schmidt.
(No. 6302.)
Error from Dallas County.
McCormick &' Spence, counsel for plaintiff in error.
John Bookhout, counsel for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Willson, J.
June 10, 1890.
§ 134. Garnishment; service of writ of on incorporated company; sheriff's return of service held insufficient to authorize judgment by default. This writ of error is prosecuted from a judgment by default recovered by defendant in ei'ror against plaintiff in error as a garnishee. Plaintiff in error is an incorporated company under the laws of this state. The return of the sheriff of service of the writ of garnishment is as follows: " Game to hand September 3, 1888, and executed same day received, at 10:30 o'clock A. M., by delivering to Geo. E. Bennett, manager of the Tompkins Mach. & Imp. Co., a true copy of this writ.". This return of service did not authorize the judgment by default. It does not show that service of the writ was made ufpon plaintiff in error ill any of the modes prescribed by the statute. It cannot be assumed or presumed that the "manager" of said company was either the president, secretary, treasurer or local agent of said company. [Sayles' Civil St., art. 1223.] In the case of a foreign corporation, service of process may'be had upon the "general manager" of such corporation, but plaintiff in error is not a foreign, but a domestic, corporation. [Id., art. 1223a.]
Reversed and remanded.