Grace v. Pierce

Citations

• 127 Miss. 831
• 90 So. 590

Syllabus

<p>1. Appeal ajnd Error. Chancellor’s decision on facts sustained unless manifestly wrong.</p> <p>A chancellor’s decision on the facts of a case will be sustained by the supreme court unless it be manifestly wrong.</p> <p>2. Judgment. Garnishment will not extend the lien of the judgment upon which it is founded.</p> <p>A writ of garnishment issued within the seven-year statutory period of liimtation will not serve to extend the lien of the judgment upon which it is founded, as the judgment lien can only be extended by the filing of another suit before the expiration of seven years from the date of the rendition thereof.</p> <p>3. Garnishment. Proceedings require a valid judgment and fail when the judgment is extinguished by limitation statute.</p> <p>A valid judgment is essential to the validity of a garnishment proceeding, and, when a judgment upon which a writ of garnishment is founded is extinguished by the bar of the statute of limitation, the garnishment procedings likewise fail.</p>