6 Ga. App. 405 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
(After stating the foregoing facts.) In the petition for certiorari there are several assignments of error which are not insisted upon here, no reference being made to them in the brief. The fact that the justice of the peace entered judgment against the garnishees without the introduction of any evidence, cither in support of the answer or the traverse thereto, would be of no moment in this case, even if the assignment of error upon that ground had been insisted upon before us. The garnishees c ould not complain of the fact that judgment was entered upon the statements contained in their own answers. In these answers they admitted that they were indebted to the defendant in fi. fa. upon a judgment. It is true that according to their answers the judgment was based upon a tort, but the damages had been liquidated and the amount of their indebtedness was fixed by the judgment. The amount of the judgment was subject to garnishment. Lee v. Louisville & Nashville R. Co., 2 Ga. App. 337 (58 S. E. 520). Whether the judge of the superior court erred in overruling the certiorari depends', therefore, wholly upon whether the trial justice
Judgment affirmed.