Case Name: Bernard Albachten vs. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railway Company, Garnishee, impleaded, etc.
Court: Minnesota Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Minnesota
Decision Date: 1889-04-23
Citations: 40 Minn. 378
Docket Number: 
Parties: Bernard Albachten vs. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railway Company, Garnishee, impleaded, etc.
Judges: 
Reporter: Minnesota Reports
Volume: 40
Pages: 378–379

Head Matter:
Bernard Albachten vs. Chicago, St. Paul & Kansas City Railway Company, Garnishee, impleaded, etc.
April 23, 1889.
Appeal by Garnish.ee. — A separate appeal to the municipal court of theeity of St. Paul may be taken by a garnishee from, a judgment against him rendered by one of the city justices, and such right of appeal is not dependent upon the removal by appeal of the judgment in the principal action.
Appeal by the railway company, garnishee, from a judgment of the municipal court of St. Paul.
Lusk & Bunn, for appellant.
Samuel Whaley, for respondent.

Opinion:
Vanderburgh, J.
The appellant corporation was summoned as garnishee in an action in a justice's court in the city of St. Paul, and from a judgment rendered against it in that court appealed to the municipal court of the city. The city justice made his return upon the appeal, but no appeal was made by the defendant in the principal action. The municipal court dismissed the appeal of the garnishee, on the ground "that there was no judgment in the municipal court in the principal case, and no appeal to that court therein." A separate and independent appeal lies to the municipal court of the city in favor of a garnishee from a judgment against him rendered by a city justice. Gen. St. 1878, c. 66, § 197; Sp. Laws 1881, c. 407. The return was sufficient to give the municipal court jurisdic tion to entertain the appeal; whether it disclosed errors such as to warrant a reversal was for the court to determine. It was clearly error to dismiss the appeal. It was proper for the clerk to reduce the order dismissing the appeal to the form of a judgment, and the appeal therefrom to this court was properly perfected.
Judgment reversed.
Note.
Frederick Richter v. James E. Trask, Garnishee.
April 23, 1889.
By the Court. This ease presents substantially the same questions as are considered in Albachten v. Chicago, St. Paul, & K. C. Ry. Co., and is determined in the same way*. Judgment reversed.
James E. Trask, appellant, pro se.
B. H. Schriber, for respondent.