Conshohocken Tube Co. v. Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
Conshohocken Tube Co. v. Western New York & Pennsylvania Railroad
Opinion of the Court
It was incumbent on plaintiff company, in this issue, to show how much, if anything was owing by the garnishee company to the defendant in the judgment. For that purpose, it gave in •evidence the answers of the garnishee company’s receiver, in which he admitted that, prior to July 23, 1893, nearly six months before the writ of foreign attachment was issued, he had sundry transactions with said defendant wherein certain
The material averments of fact contained in the answers,, thus put in evidence by the plaintiff, were prima facie true; and, in the absence of any testimony tending to prove the contrary, they were conclusive in favor of the garnishee company, so far as any indebtedness on account of said mileage earnings was concerned; and hence there was no error in refusing to submit that matter to the jury. That branch of the plaintiff’s claim having been properly excluded from the consideration of the jury, the only remaining item was $441.83 for material account, not covered by the assignment above referred to. As to that, the learned judge directed the jury to find for the plaintiff.
There is nothing in either of the specifications of error that requires further notice.
Judgment affirmed.
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