Cagle v. Butcher

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• Under statute, garnishment, and not execution, is proper remedy to reach debt represented by a chose in action.
• Under statute, garnishment, and not execution, is proper remedy to reach debt represented by a chose in action.
• garnishment, not execution, is the proper remedy to reach a cause of action
• “Where a statute that has been construed by a court of last resort is reenacted in substantially the same terms, the legislature is presumed to have placed its approval on the judicial construction and adopted such construction for the reenactment of the statute.”

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