42 Mo. App. 460 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1890
The plaintiff brought suit by attachment against George B. Wood, and caused the School District of the City of Carthage to be summoned as a. garnishee, which appeared in the cause and moved the court to discharge it because not subject nor liable to garnishment. The motion was sustained, and judgment, was accordingly rendered discharging the garnishee, from which judgment plaintiffs have appealed.
In Georgia, and, perhaps, in other states, it has been held that it is as much against public policy to-
The construction that the word “person,” as employed in section 5218, included school-district corporations is, in our opinion, repugnant to the provisions of section 2541. The provisions of the statute relating to private corporations have no application to corporations of this kind. It being a public corporation, it is left like a municipal corporation not subject under the statute to the process of garnishment. Pendleton v. Perkins, 49 Mo. 535.
In view of decisions of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, to which we have referred, and the construction which we have placed upon the statute, we feel constrained to hold that the School District of the City of Carthage is not subject to garnishment for the debt claimed to be due by it to the attachment defendant. It results that the judgment will be affirmed.