26 Ga. App. 542 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1921
1. Upon tlie trial of an issue formed between a plaintiff in an attachment upon which a garnishment has issued and a claimant to a fund which the garnishee in his answer admits that he holds as the property of the defendant in attachment, where the evidence of the garnishee tends to show that the fund belonged, at the time of the levy, to the defendant in attachment, it is error to nonsuit the plaintiff and dismiss the attachment upon the ground that the plaintiff has failed to carry the burden of proof which rests upon the plaintiff in a claim case where the property levied upon was not at the time of the levy In the possession of the defendant in fi. fa.
2. The written correspondence between the garnishee and the defendant in attachment, which was conducted prior to the issuance of the attachment and which was admitted in evidence, tended to establish a contractual relation between the parties and to show a sale of goods from the defendant in attachment to the garnishee which would authorize the inference that the garnishee was indebted to or held funds belonging to the defendant in attachment. Such of the correspondence as consist