Case Name: BATTLES v. BATTLES et al.
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1976-06-08
Citations: 138 Ga. App. 841
Docket Number: 51796
Parties: BATTLES v. BATTLES et al.
Judges: Clark and Stolz, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 138
Pages: 841–842

Head Matter:
51796.
BATTLES v. BATTLES et al.

Opinion:
Bell, Chief Judge.
This is a post-judgment garnishment case which was commenced prior to July 1, 1975, pursuant to our then existing garnishment statutes. The Supreme Court in Coursin v. Harper, 236 Ga. 729, held that the Georgia procedure for pre-judgment and post-judgment garnishment as it existed prior to July 1, 1975, failed to provide due process and was unconstitutional. Coursin controls and the judgment of the trial court for the plaintiff must be reversed.
Argued February 2, 1976
Decided June 8, 1976.
Page, Scrantom, Harris, McGlamry & Chapman, Joan Swift, for appellant.
H. Palmer Carr, Jr., Assistant U. S. Attorney, Schumacher, Collins & Oates, Samuel W. Oates, Jr., Thomas O. L. Collins, for appellees.
Judgment reversed.
Clark and Stolz, JJ., concur.