77 Ga. 374 | Ga. | 1887
A tenant and his landlord settled. The tenant owed a debt to Copeland of a certain amount, and the landlord took the growing crop and agreed to pay this debt, but did not. Copeland sued the tenant and got a judgment, and then garnished the landlord as a debtor of the tenant. Two courts below have held that the landlord was the tenant’s debtor — that agreeing to pay the amount to the tenant’s creditor, and receiving the consideration for such agreement, made him the tenant’s debtor. After the tenant’s creditor (who was no party to the arrangement entered into by the others for his payment) obtained judgment against the tenant, why could he not reach the landlord’s debt to the tenant and collect his money ?
This case is unlike Watkins vs. Pope, 38 Ga. 514, in which a creditor, not provided for in the agreement, sued out garnishment.
Judgment affirmed.