Case Name: Tucker v. Marsteller, Garnishee of Stonemeitz
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1805-11
Citations: 1 Cranch 254
Docket Number: 
Parties: Tucker v. Marsteller, Garnishee of Stonemeitz.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 254–254

Head Matter:
Tucker v. Marsteller, Garnishee of Stonemeitz.
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.
The garnishee answers on oath that Stonemeitz told him he should send goods to his vendue to be sold, for which the garnishee should settle with Stonemeitz’s wife. The goods were 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 plaintiff was served.

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