Case Name: TUCKER v. MARSTELLER
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-11
Citations: 24 F. Cas. 274
Docket Number: 
Parties: TUCKER v. MARSTELLER.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 24
Pages: 274–275

Head Matter:
Case No. 14,222.
TUCKER v. MARSTELLER.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 254.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1805.
Garnishment — Acceptance of Draft before Service.
An acceptance, by the garnishee, of the defendant’s draft in favor of a third person Before service of the attachment, binds the ’garnishee, and cannot be overreached by the attachment.
[Cited in Garland v. Harrington, 51 N. H. 415.]
The garnishee answers on oath that Stone-meitz told him he should send goods to his vendee to be sold, for which the garnishee should settle with Stonemeitz’s wife. The goods wore sent and sold, and Stonemeitz's wife on the same day drew two orders, one in favor of Myers, or order, for sixty-one dollars, and one in favor of - or order, for forty-six dollars, which the garnishee accepted to pay, if the proceeds of the sale should, amount to so much. On the next day the attachment of the pláintiff was served.

Opinion:
THE COURT
decided that the acceptance of the orders bound the garnishee, and that the attachment should not overreach the acceptances.