251 S.W. 449 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1923
Lead Opinion
Plaintiff brings suit against defendant for certain goods sold and delivered by plaintiff to defendant. The petition is supported by an affidavit that defendant is a non-resident of the State of Missouri. Respondent was summoned as garnishee.
Plaintiff, in his reply to garnishee's answer, alleges that respondent occupied as tenants certain premises in St. Louis County which were held by Clifford W. Banks and wife; that at the time he was served with garnishment proceedings he was paying a rental of forty dollars per month to "either" defendant or his wife; that defendant is indebted to plaintiff. Plaintiff then seeks to have an order of court upon the garnishee to turn over this rent after the date on which summons and notice was served upon him. *203
Garnishee filed a motion to quash the attachment, on the ground that he is a tenant of property held by the defendant and his wife as tenants by the entirety, and, as such, the rents, issues, and profits are not subject to levy or attachment for the individual debts of the husband alone. The court sustained the motion to quash, and entered judgment in favor of the garnishee, and plaintiff appeals.
There is some question about the proceedings to perfect the appeal being in proper form, but, in view of the conclusions we have reached, it is unnecessary to pass upon them, because it would in no way change the result. The plaintiff, who is appellant here, argues that the rents, issues, and profits of an estate by the entirety is subject to attachment for the husband's debts alone, and cites and relies solely upon the law as announced in Rezabek v. Rezabek,
The opinion of this court, in Rezabek v. Rezabek, supra, was rendered in February, 1917. In February, 1918, the Supreme Court, in Brewing Co. v. Saxy,
In Brewing Co. v. Saxy, supra, it is held that a judgment and execution against a husband alone cannot in any way affect property held by them by the entirety, nor can it affect any supposed separate interest of the husband therein, for he has no separate interest; and the rule of law as announced in Hiles v. Fisher, supra, was condemned.
We think the rents and profits of an estate by the entirety are not subject to attachment for the husband's debts alone, the wife not being a party.
The Commissioner recommends that the judgment be affirmed.
The garnishee having by a proper and timely motion asked for expenses and also an allowance for a reasonable attorney's fee in this court, the Commissioner recommends that $11.75 be allowed for printing the respondent's brief, and $50 for attorney's fee, all to be taxed as costs herein against appellant. [See Koppen v. Union Iron Foundry Co.,
Addendum
The foregoing opinion of NIPPER, C., is adopted as the opinion of the court. The judgment of the circuit court is accordingly affirmed in accordance with the recommendations of the Commissioner. Allen, P.J. Becker and Daues, JJ., concur.