Case Name: Apthorp v. Lockwood
Court: Connecticut Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Connecticut
Decision Date: 1790-07
Citations: 1 Root 198
Docket Number: 
Parties: Apthorp v. Lockwood.
Judges: 
Reporter: Connecticut Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 198–198

Head Matter:
Apthorp v. Lockwood.
A’ garnishee may be inquired of respecting a mistake in the note, claimed of him.
A plaintiff may recover of the garnishee the balance, of a debt, due from him to the absconding debtor, by assignment from others.
Scire Eacias against him as garnishee to Charles M’Evers.

Opinion:
It was determined that he might be inquired of relative to a mistake, which intervened at the giving of the note to said M'Evers, for which he is now challenged. Also it -was determined, that the plaintiff recover a debt due' from Lockwood to M'Evers and Company, that was assigned to the said M'Evers, as being his property, by force of the assignment.