Gow
Gow v. Marshall
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Belcher, J.
This is an action by an attaching creditor against a garnishee, based on section 720 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
It is alleged in the complaint that on the thirteenth day of March, 1888, the plaintiff, N. W. Gow, commenced an action against H. B. Marshall to recover the sum of $1,686.78 for work and labor performed and money paid; that a summons was duly issued and served on the defendant; that a writ of attachment was also duly issued and delivered to the sheriff of the county, *566 and the plaintiff then gave to the sheriff information in writing that the Centinela-Inglewood Land Company, a corporation, “ had in its possession or under its control certain credits belonging to the defendant ”; that the sheriff served the writ upon the said corporation by delivering to its president a copy tlfereof, “ together with a notice that said credits were attached under and in pursuance of said writ,” and that no reply to the notice was made; that thereafter such proceedings were had in the action that on the 29th of March, 1888, judgment “ was duly rendered and entered ” therein, in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendant, for the sum prayed for and costs, making in all the…