Brainard
Brainard v. Rogers
Opinion
lead Opinion
Nourse, J.
This is an action for goods sold and delivered. It was commenced on September 29, 1921, in a complaint filed against Nick Rogers, defendant. At that time this defendant had sustained a complete loss by fire of his merchandise, furniture and fixtures. The property destroyed was covered by two policies of fire insurance amounting to $5,000. When the complaint was filed a writ of attachment was issued and the proceeds of the fire insurance policies in the hands of the insurers was garnished. Thereafter W. D. Grady intervened in the action and alleged that he was the assignee of the insurance moneys and that as such, assignee he had obtained a judgment by stipulation with the defendant Nick Rogers for $2,200 against the insurance company. The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiff against Nick Rogers in the full sum demanded in the complaint, but adjudged that the intervener was the owner of 'the insurance moneys garnished by the plaintiff and' ordered them discharged from the lien of plaintiff’s attachment. From this portion of the judgment in favor of the intervener the plaintiff appeals and the appeal is resisted by the intervener alone. The appeal is presented…