96 Mo. App. 340 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1902
On the twenty-first day of February, 1901, plaintiff brought suit by attachment against •defendant, Moses M. Thompson, a non-resident of the State, before J. R. Price, a justice of the peace in Union township, Holt county, Missouri, and on same day defendant Ramsay was summoned as garnishee. Defendant Ramsey answered, admitting that he had in his hands $700 in money belonging to said Thompson. After proof was made of plaintiff’s demand against said Thompson, judgment was rendered in plaintiff’s favor ■on said demand against said Thompson for $28.25 and costs of suit, and like judgment against defendant garnishee Ramsay. On April 22,1901, execution was issued against Ramsay as such garnishee for the amount of said judgment and costs. On the twenty-seventh day ■of said month Ramsay appeared and moved to quash said execution, which motion was overruled by the justice and from which action of the justice Ramsay appealed to the circuit court of the county where he renewed his said motion which the court sustained. It is from this action of the court that the plaintiff has appealed.
The contention is that the justice had no jurisdiction to entertain the motion, and, therefore, no jurisdiction could be conferred upon either the circuit court •or this court by appeal.
We find nothing in the statutes authorizing a justice of the peace to quash an execution issued from his court. In Enlow v. Newland, 22 Mo. App. 581, it was held that justices of the peace have only such powers .as are given them by statute. In Weeks v. Etter, 81