Merwin v. Fowler

Citations

• 20 Wash. 587
• 56 P. 374
• 1899 Wash. LEXIS 207

Syllabus

<p>GARNISHMENT—PROPERTY SUBJECT.,</p> <p>Where under a decree it is necessary to pay a sum of money into the hands of the clerk of the court in order to obtain certain rights, money so paid by a third person, who takes an assignment of all rights under the judgment as security, cannot upon the subsequent vacation of the judgment be subjected to garnishment proceedings by a creditor of the person for whose use the money had been advanced, as on 'failure of the security the assignee would become entitled to a return of the money.</p>