Court Opinion

ID: 7961989
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:46:29.789774+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:31.003005
License: Public Domain

The facts as established by the petition and answer were:
a — That on or about January 20, 1894, relators sued the Detroit Pie Company in assumpsit in the Wayne circuit court, and garnished Harry J. Sequin and Henry J. Boerth, said writ of garnishment being returnable February 6,1891.
b — That on February 19, 1894, the garnishees filed their disclosure, which was indorsed as follows:
“Ho. 33070.
Wayne Circuit Court.
Calijihurnia B. Phelps et al.,
vs.
Detroit Pie Company,
Principal Defendant,
Harry J. Sequin, Garnishee Defendant.
Disclosure.
[The same indorsement was set up in the petition for mandam/us as appearing on said disclosure, with the addition of the words “Garnishee Defendants,” after word “For” at commencement of blank line. It appears by an examination of the petition for mandamus and the memorandum brief filed in support thereof that Bowen, Douglas & Whiting use a paper back for papers filed by them in their cases, at the bottom of which their firm name is printed as above below the words “Dep. Clerk.” — Editor.]
MOTION AND MANDAMUS CASES.
Filed Feb. 21,1894.
Wm. E. Fenwick, Dep. Clerk.
Bowen, Douglas & Whiting,
Attorneys and Counselors,
Detroit, Michigan.
For....................”
That in said disclosure, which was made by Harry J. Boerth for his firm, said garnishees denied that at' the time of the service upon them of the writ of garnishment they were indebted to the principal defendant; that they further stated that at the time of such service they had in their possession certain personal property, describing it, used in the pie baking business, which they had taken from the principal defendant on September 18,1893, by bill of sale, subject to a chattel mortgage for $1,800, dated July 28, 1893, given by the principal defendant to Mary Neubronner, to whom, prior to such service, they had paid to apply on said mortgage the sum of $800; that, except as thus stated, they had not in their hands, or in their custody or under their control, any goods, chattels, credits, money and effects belonging to the principal defendant.
o — Relators stated in their petition that said disclosure was, at the request-of said garnishees, drawn by Bowen, Douglas & Whiting, the attorneys for relators, as to which matter the respondent in his answer averred a want of knowledge, but attached to said answer a certified copy of the affidavit of one of the garnishees, filed at the time of the hearing of the motion to dismiss the garnishment proceedings, in which he averred that the garnishees did not appear by attorney.
d — That on January 30, 1895, judgment was rendered in favor of relators in the principal suit for $1,497.07 damages, with costs to be taxed.
e — That the statement in said petition that relators, through their attorneys, requested said. garnishees to obtain other attorneys to represent them is true, but said request was not made until March 20, 1896.
/ — That the statutory issue framed in said garnishment proceedings was not on the docket for the January, April, June, and September, 1895, nor the January, 1896, terms of court; that the records of said court do not show that notes of issue were filed for said terms, nor that said statutory issue was continued for trial from term to term.
g — That on March 26, 1896, said garnishees, by Wisner & Harvey, their attorneys, who appeared for the purposes of said motion only, moved the court to dismiss said garnishment proceedings for the reason that four terms of court had intervened since the term at which relators recovered judgment, and relators had failed to have said statutory issue placed on the docket of said court for trial, or to have the same continued from term to term.
it — That on April 6, 1896, said motion was argued before respondent by F. C. Harvey, counsel for said garnishees, and by counsel for relators, and submitted for decision; that on June 23, 1896, respondent granted said motion, with all of the costs thereof against relators.