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· 5/18/1896

State ex rel. Summerfield v. Tyler

Citations

  • 14 Wash. 495
  • 37 L.R.A. 207
  • 45 P. 31
  • 1896 Wash. LEXIS 395

Syllabus

<p>GARNISHMENT — LIABILITY ON COUNTY TO PROCESS — COLLATERAL ATTACK.</p> <p>A judgment against a county as garnishee defendant is void on collateral attach, when the statutes do not make a county subject to garnishee process.</p> <p>A county is not liable to garnishment unless made so by express statutory provision.</p> <p>The fact that corporations are named by statute as among those upon whom process in garnishment may be' served does not apply to municipal corporations, unless they are expressly included.</p>

Judges: Anders, Dunbar, Gordon, Hoyt

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