37 Ga. App. 392 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1927
1. “The service of a summons of garnishment shall in all cases operate as a lien on all the garnishee’s indebtedness at the date of the service and also on all future indebtedness accruing up to the date of the answer, and such lien shall not be defeated by any payments
2. In the instant case, it appearing, without dispute, from the testimony of the garnishee, that his indebtedness to the defendant accrued after the service of the summons of garnishment and before the filing of the answer thereto, and that such indebtedness was, after the service of the summons, liquidated by the execution of a negotiable promissory note to the defendant, the garnishee is not protected by payment made to the holder of such note, even, though the latter became such bona fide and before maturity. Accordingly, the court erred in directing a verdict for the garnishee, and in thereafter overruling the .plaintiff’s motion for a new trial.
Judgment reversed.