Case Name: ESTATE OF JOHN SIME
Court: Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco
Jurisdiction: California
Decision Date: 1876-10-11
Citations: 1 Myrick 100
Docket Number: No. 4459
Parties: ESTATE OF JOHN SIME.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of Cases in the Probate Court of the City and County of San Francisco, from January 1, 1872, to December 31, 1879, Milton H. Myrick, Probate Judge
Volume: 1
Pages: 100–100

Head Matter:
ESTATE OF JOHN SIME.
No. 4459
Oct. 11, 1876.
Garnishment process served on executor.—The executor is not subject to garnishment process for the share, of heir who has been sued for a debt; nor can the heir’s interest be reached by process of garnishment before distribution.
Construing sections, O. C. P., 717-18-19,1666.
George & Loughborough, for creditor.
J. H. Smythe, for Mrs. Sime.

Opinion:
The estate is ready for distribution. A creditor of Mrs. Sime has served upon the executor a garnishment of the interest of Mrs. Sime in the property of the estate, and moves that the executor be ordered to pay his debt out of the moneys now ready to be distributed and paid to her.
By the Court:
Money in the hands of an executor cannot be reached by the process of garnishment before distribution. Estate of Nerac, 35 Cal., 392. Motion denied.