46 Iowa 55 | Iowa | 1877
II. Upon the question as to whether the judgment was paid, the plaintiff introduced in evidence a decree of court between said Milligan as administrator, and the defendant, Joseph Bowman, showing what payments the said Joseph Bowman was entitled to have indorsed on said judgment. There is no evidence of any payments since, and the plaintiff claims only the balance which appears to be due by said decree.
III. As to whether the land in question belongs to the defendant, Sarah E. Bowman, or whether she holds it in trust for her husband the defendant, Joseph Bowman, the evidence is somewhat conflicting.
Mrs. Bowman testifies that she purchased it with the proceeds of other land- which she previously owned, and which is spoken of in the evidence as the Deardoff farm, and that she purchased the Deardoff farm with money given her by her brother, derived in part from her father’s estate. But her testimony on the whole is strange and unnatural. She is unable to give any reasonable account as to where her father’s estate was, or of the circumstances of the giving of money to her by her brother.
The evidence shows that the defendants were apparently destitute of property, with the exception of some land which was owned by the husband; that he sold the said land for $2,000; that he immediately bought in the name of his wife the Deardoff farm, that he paid therefor the sum of $1,800, and that if he did not pay it from the '$2,000, the proceeds of the sale of his own land, then -the said $2,000 is xmaccounted for. It would serve no useful pui’pose to set forth the evidence tending to show that the land in question was bought with Joseph Bowman’s money. It is sufficient to say that the evidence has been read by us separately, and we have all i*eaehed the conclusion that it was bought with his money.
• The appellant’s claim, however, is that as McSpadden was owing for the Deardoff farm, and as the money then due was used to purchase the land in question, and as Wymore released McSpadden as garnishee, when he might have held him if the money was due Joseph Bowman and not his wife, the plaintiff should not be allowed to pursue the proceeds of the Deardoff farm in another way. But the release of a garnishee who is in fact indebted does hot estop the creditor from levying upon property bought with money paid by the garnishee to the debtor, and which was due and unpaid at the time of the garnishment and release. The decree of the District Court is
Affirmed.