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ARK.] HUGHES-SPEITH PIPE LINE CO. V. MCWILLIAMS 79 ' HDW. & FURNITURE CO. HUGHES-SPEITH PIPE LINE COMPANY V. MCWILLIAMS HARDWARE & FURNITURE COMPANY. Opinion delivered November 8, 1926. 1. GARNISHMENTEFFECT OF SUBSEQUENT .JUDGMENT AGAINST GAR= NISHEE.—A garnishee cannot avoid liability for funds garnished by reason of having subsequently paid all funds in his hands belonging to defendant by order of court to the receiver in another suit against defendant, where the garnishee failed to contest the payment to the receiver on the ground of the prior garnishment having imposed a lien on the funds. 2. PLEADING AMENDMENTDISCRETION OF COURT.—Refusal to permit an amendment to an answer which conflicts with the original answer, and was not requested until the case was called for trial, held within the court's discretion. . Appeal from Union Circuit Court, Second Division ; W. A. Speer, Judge ; affirmed. Marsh & Marlin, for appellant. Mahony, Yoeton , & Saye, for aivellee. HUMPHREYS, J. On December 20, 1924, appellee brought suit in the second division of the Circuit Court of Union County against J. J. Page, upon a note for $487.50, with interest at 10 per cent. per annum until paid, for which amount it prayed judgment. Based upon the allegation in the complaint that appellant was Indebted to J. J. Page in the sum of $500, it pray0 for and obtained a writ of garnishment, which was duly issued and served upon appellant upon the same day the suit was brought. On the 9th day of March, 1925, judgment by default was rendered against J. J. Page upon the note, and appellant was given until April 15, 1925, to file an answer to the writ of garnishment. On said date it filed the following answer : "Comes , now the Hughes-Speith"Pipe Line Company, garnishee herein, and, for its answer to the writ of -gar-nishment herein served on the 20th day of December, 1924, states-that, on and after the service of the writ of garnish-ment in this cause, it had and held in its hands and possession goods, chattels, moneys, credits and effects
80 HUGHES-SPEITH PIPE LINE CO. V. MCWILLIAMS [172 HDW. & FURNITURE CO. accrued to the ,credit of J. J. Page on account of oil run from a certain oil and gas lease located in Union County, Arkansas, as follOws, to-wit : - " The northwest quarter of the northwest quarter .of section 23, township 16 south, range 15 west, in the Sum of $487.50. " " That, subsequent to the service of I the writ of garnishment in this cause, and prior to a judgment by default obtained herein on the 9th day of March, 1925, in the case of T. L. Senter, plaintiff,.v.•J. J. Page, defendant, in the Union Chancery Court, Second DivisiOn, it was, on the 24th day of December, 1924, ordered by said court to pay oVer to and deliver to V. L. Robie, the duly appointed receiver in said cause, all sums of moneys then in its hands and possession, and authorized said receiver to collect and receive all moneys. accruing on account of oil runs from said above described lease. "That, pursuant to and in accordance with said order of the Union Chancery Court, Second Division, all sums arising or becoming due to the said J. J. Page,.on account of oil runs from the above described lease, by this garnishee, were by this garnishee paid to the said V. L. Robie, receiver, and his successor, Windell Utley,. receiver. in said cause of F. L. Senter, plaintiff; V. J. J. Page, defendant, same being cause No of . the Union Chancery Court, Second Division. " That, on account of its haying complied with said order of court, it did not, at the time of the, rendition of, the judgment in this cause on the 9th day of March, 1925, have or hold in its hands or possession goods, moneys, chattels, credits or effects, of any nature. or char-ader, owing or belonging to the defendant, J. J. Page. "Wherefore, having answered, garnishee prays that it be discharged from further answering, for all its cost herein, and all other proper, relief.". On April 23, 1925, appellee filed a demurrer to the answer of the garnishee, and a motion for judgment, upon the grounds that the facts stated in the answer were insufficient to constitute a defense to the writ. the /
ARK.] HUGHES-SPEITH PIPE LINE CO. v. MCWILLIAMS 81- HMV. & FURNITURE 'Co. cause was called for trial on May 20, 1925, Whereupon appellant filed a motion, for permission to amend its answer as follows: "Comes ROW Hughes-Speith Pipe Line Company, garnishee herein, and prays leave to amend- its answer herein, and for cause states: "That, by error or oversight, it omitted from its answer, as garnishee herein, the allegation that, at the time 'of serviee of the writ of garnishment herein, the defendant, J. J. Page, owed and was indebted- to it- in the sum of $4,500 as halance'due on a certain mortgage debt secured by mortgage recorded , in book ,.page , -of the-records of Union County, Arkansas; and that said mortgage debt was due and unpaid- and is yet imPaid, and that it has the right to offset the amount ,of $487:50 on said indebtednesS. That same was the value of nne-half of oil run from said lease , during the last 15 days. -"That said . facts are true, and that same should baize- been alleged in the original answer of the garnishee herein. "That sAid answer was proffered by Tom Marlin of the firm of Marsh -& Marlin, who Was . not at the time furnished Vaith the above facts, the same not being called to .his attention at the time of said ariswer. "Wherefore he prays leave to amend the said answer herein to incorporate said facts herein." The motion. was duly verified. The trial Court denied the motion of appellant to amend its answer, sustained the demurrer to its original *answer, and rendered . a, judgment against it for $487.50, from which is this appeal. The two questions -to be determined on this appeal are', whether the original answer stated fads sufficient tO-entitle . the appellant to a release from the writ of garnishment, and whether the trial court abused its dis-.cretion in . refuSing' to allow aPpellant to amend its answer.
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