25 Iowa 408 | Iowa | 1868
To the usual interrogatories, the garnishee, upon appearance, answering, denies all indebtedness to the defendant in attachment.
He is then especially interrogated as to his indebtedness upon a certain judgment against him and in favor of defendant in attachment, rendered in the Clinton District Court. He replies substantially that certain attorneys for defendant in attachment, desired to test the question by a suit in the courts, “ whether a party who had paid money for liquor could recover it backthat the defendant in attachment had paid the garnishee money for liquor furnished him; that an agreement in writing was entered into between the attorneys of the defendant in attachment and the garnishee before the rendition of judgment (a suit having been commenced by the defendant in attachment against the garnishee to recover the
This position is singularly unfortunate in being supported neither by the law nor the facts as disclosed by the record.
In the second place, the record does not show that the garnishee sold the attachment debtor intoxicating liquors contrary to the act for the suppression of intemperance. Neither does the record disclose the fact that the attachment debtor owed one cent to any one when the judgment in his favor was rendered, or the agreement to satisfy it was executed.
III. It is further urged that the agreement to satisfy the judgment was a fraud upon the court in providing for an action for an improper purpose. Let this proposition be admitted, yet it does not follow that the garnishee is indebted to the attachment debtor, which is the only question to be determined in this case.
IY. The plaintiffs contend that, inasmuch as it was determined by the judgment of the court that the garnishee was indebted to the attachment debtor, neither party can be heard to deny it under an agreement made prior to the rendition of the judgment.
The judgment cannot be denied, but the indebtedness thereon can be shown to have been paid or discharged, and this may be done under an agreement made before the rendition of the judgment.
Y. It is lastly urged by plaintiffs that notwithstanding the agreement to satisfy the judgment, it has not, in fact, been satisfied, and is, therefore, in full force.
The question is as to the garnishee’s indebtedness upon the judgment: the agreement is evidence of the fact that he is not indebted thereon, to which he testifies positively in his answer. If he is’not indebted on the judgment,
The judgment of the District Court is
Reversed.