Smith v. Meyer
Smith v. Meyer
Opinion of the Court
The plaintiffs caused a garnishee summons to be issued in this case, which was served on the garnishee on October 27, 1900, which appeared and disclosed facts tending to show that the intervenor, Aultman, Miller & Co., was entitled to the property disclosed to be in the possession of the garnishee, consisting of certain promissory notes and book accounts, which it received from the defendants. The trial court, on the application of the intervenor, made its order granting it leave to intervene in the action by complaint to be filed and served within ten days from the date of the order.
*457 “Fairmont, Minn., Oct. 2, 1900.
“First National Bank,
■ “Fairmont, Minn.
“Gents:
“You will please apply on our note due Aultman, Miller & Co., of $875.80, in your hands for collection, all money received by you from notes and accounts in your hands due us after note given to First National Bank is paid, until said note is fully paid to Aultman, Miller & Co. . Meyer & Reko.”
“Fairmont, Minn., Nov. 17th, 1900.
“First National Bank,
“Fairmont, Minn.
“Gents:
“You will please deliver to Aultman, Miller & Co., or their representative, the bearer, Sylvester Hill, all money collected from our collaterals in your hands, and all notes and accounts belonging to us and in your hands, and oblige,
“Yoürs truly,
“Meyer & Reko.”
These are the same orders mentioned in the disclosure of the garnishee. The indebtedness to the garnishee had been paid before the garnishee summons was served, and the garnishee was then holding such securities as the agent of the intervenor, and for its use and benefit only. The prayer of the complaint of intervenor was that the garnishee deliver to the intervenor the notes and accounts and all money in its hands collected thereon. The plaintiffs made and served a general demurrer to this complaint of intervention. The trial court made its order overruling the demurrer, from which the plaintiffs appealed.
The first reason urged in support of the demurrer is to the effect that the complaint fails to allege the fact that garnishee proceedings had been instituted and the property claimed attached; or, in other words, it is claimed that all of the prior garnishee proceedings must be alleged. It is neither necessary nor proper to do so, for such allegations can serve no purpose except to clog the record with needless repetitions. The right or duty of the intervenor to' intervene and assert his claim to the garnished property, if any he has, arises upon the record in the garnishee proceedings; and it is not necessary, either in the complaint of intervention or in the answer thereto, to allege what already ap
It is further urged that the complaint does not show that the notes and accounts referred to in the complaint are the same as mentioned in the disclosure of the garnishee. While there is no direct allegation of this fact in the complaint, yet its allegations and the disclosure of the garnishee clearly show that the intervenor claims the notes and accounts in the hands of the garnishee, and none other. Again, the application upon which the order of the court permitting the intervenor to intervene was made states that it claims the property disclosed by the garnishee, and this claim was necessarily the basis of the order.
It is also claimed that the complaint does not show that, the agreement therein alleged was made prior to the service of the garnishee summons. The complaint alleges that the agreement (not the orders) was made on September 28, 1900, and that at the time of the service of the garnishee summons the indebtedness from the defendants to the garnishee, to secure which the notes and accounts were pledged pursuant to the agreement, had been paid. It is true that the order for the delivery of the collaterals to the intervenor was made after the service of the garnishee summons. But its alleged title to the notes and accounts does not depend upon this order, for the allegations of the complaint show a' valid prior agreement, whereby the notes and accounts were pledged, subject to the prior lien of the garnishee, to secure the payment of the defendants’ note to the intervenor. This agreement was supplemented by the order made prior to the service of the garnishee summons, and on October 2, 1900. The prior agreement is not merged in this order, nor are they contradictory to each other, as claimed by plaintiffs, for the order directs the application of all money collected from the collaterals precisely as provided for by the agreement. The allegations of the complaint upon their face show that the notes, and accounts subject to the prior claim of the garnishee were equitably assigned to the intervenor before service of the gar
It follows that the demurrer was properly overruled.
Order affirmed.
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- ERNEST F. SMITH and Another v. WILLIAM MEYER and Another
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