P. A. Geier Co. v. Reliance Electric & Engineering Co.

14 Ohio N.P. (n.s.) 353, 26 Ohio Dec. 329, 1913 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 77
CourtCuyahoga County Common Pleas Court
DecidedMarch 28, 1913
StatusPublished

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P. A. Geier Co. v. Reliance Electric & Engineering Co., 14 Ohio N.P. (n.s.) 353, 26 Ohio Dec. 329, 1913 Ohio Misc. LEXIS 77 (Ohio Super. Ct. 1913).

Opinion

Foran, J.

Briefly stated, the facts in this case are as follows: the Crystal Window Glass Company, of Pennsylvania, a corporation, on or before February 4, 1910, was indebted to one David Gaehr, a citizen of Cleveland, Ohio, in the sum of $392.35. It was also [354]*354indebted at the same time to the plaintiff, the P. A. Geier Company, a corporation, in the sum of $905.31, some $300 of which amount has since been paid by the Crystal Window Glass Company. At the same time the defendant in this case, the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, was indebted to the Crystal Window Glass Company in the sum of $1,089.55.

On February 4, 1910, David Gaehr filed a petition and affidavit for attachment in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the petition being against the Crystal Window Glass Company, and the affidavit for attachment was in the usual form, and claiming that the defendant was a foreign corporation, and that the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company had in its possession property belonging to the said defendant, the Crystal Window Glass Company. This case was numbered on the docket of the .common pleas court of this county 116877.

On the 5th day of February, 1910, the P. A. Geier Company filed a similar petition and affidavit for attachment.

Summons and order of attachment was duly issued in each case, and duly served on the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, and due return thereof made February 7, 1910, by the sheriff of this county. The P. A. Geier Company’s action was numbered upon the common pleas court docket of this county as 116,887. In both cases the -return of the sheriff shows that the Crystal Window Glass Company was not found in Cuyahoga county, Ohio.

In the David Gaehr case an affidavit for service by publication upon the Crystal Window Glass Company was filed February 26, 1910; and record of docket entry shows that on March 7, 1910, a copy of the Illustrated Times 'and Greater Cleveland, a newspaper containing notice of the affidavit for service by publication, was mailed to Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, where the principal office of the Crystal Window Glass Company was located.

Affidavit for service by publication was also filed in the case of P. A. Geier Company against the Crystal Window Glass [355]*355Company; and the record of docket entry shows that on April 13, 1910, a copy of the same newspaper mentioned above, of date April 7, 1910, containing notice that an action had been, begun against the Crystal Window Glass Company, was mailed to it at Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, postage prepaid.

On May 21, 1910, proof of publication for service against the Crystal Window Glass Company was filed by the P. A. Geier Company; and on June 13, 1910, another affidavit for service by publication in the Geier case was filed; and on June 21, 1910, as appears of record, a copy of the same newspaper, dated June 16, 1910, containing the notice of the case, was mailed to the Crystal Window Glass Company, postage prepaid.

On August 8, 1910, the P. A. Geier Company filed its proof of publication in this case, which was approved by the court on the same day.

The Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, garnishee, filed its answer in both cases on April 4, 1910, in which answers it admitted that it was indebted to the Crystal Window Glass Company in the sum of $1,089.55.

On April-25, 1910, David Gaehr obtained a judgment by the consideration of this court against the defendant, the Crystal Window Glass Company, for $409.27; and the garnishee, the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, was ordered to pay to the clerk of this court said amount, together with plaintiff’s costs.

On June 18, 1910, the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company filed a motion to vacate the judgment obtained in the Gaehr case, as above stated, April 25, 1910, which motion was, on July 11, 1910, heard and overruled by the court; and on July 13, 1910, the court entered an O. S. J., and journal entry was accordingly prepared and approved by the court, which journal entry in effect provides that the case of David Gaehr against the Crystal Window Glass Company was heard on the petition and evidence, and defendant being in default of answer or demurrer, the court found that the facts set forth in [356]*356the petition were true, that the Eelianee Electric & Engineering Company was indebted to the Crystal Window Glass Company in the sum of $1,089.55, which amount the court ordered paid to the Clerk of this Court; and that, after the payment of the costs and the. judgment of David Gaehr out of the sum so paid to the clerk of this court, the balance should be returned to the Crystal Window Glass Company. Before this journal •entry was made, David Gaehr obtained a judgment against the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company for the .amount of its judgment obtained in his case against the Crystal Window Glass Co.

From the docket entries of this court it further appears that on July 19, 1910, $416.43 was paid to David Gaehr, according 'to the above order; and $633.27 was duly transmitted by check to the Crystal Window Glass Company at Falls Creek, Pennsylvania, by the clerk of this court.

On August 8, 1910, the plaintiff in this case, the P. A. Geier Company, obtained a judgment by default against the Crystal Window Glass Company for $964.18 and costs, recoverable out of the property attached; and the garnishee; the Reliance Electric & Engineering 'Company was ordered to pay money in its hands to the clerk, he to apply the same on this judgment and costs, the balance, if any, to be returned to the defendant, the Crystal Window Glass Company.

It will be noticed that, under and by virtue of the order of this court and the journal entry approved by the court, of date July 13, 1910, $416.43 of the fund had been paid to David • Gaehr, and the balance^ $633.27, after costs had been paid, was transmitted by the clerk of this court to the Crystal Window Glass Company; so that the order made by this court on August 8, 1910, in favor of the P. A. Geier Company, the plaintiff in this action, so far as this fund is concerned, depends upon the fact as to whether the garnishee, the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company, was in fact discharged'from further liability by the order and journal entry of July 13, 1910. If that order is conclusive and if it in fact discharges the Reliance [357]*357Electric & Engineering Company from all further liability, then this action must fall. The present action .is numbered 132142, and was filed June 16, 1911, a supplemental petition being filed November 21, 1910. The first petition, filed June 16, 1911, sets forth the facts heretofore enumerated, and alleges that the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company failed to comply with the order of this court made August 8, 1910, and refused to comply with said order, and prays judgment against the Reliance Electric & Engineering Company for the sum of $633 with interest from the first day of the July term of 1910. The supplemental petition avers that certain payments have been made by the Crystal Window Glass Company on the original indebtedness since the beginning of its action on February 5, 1910, and the prayer of the supplemental petition is for judgment in the sum of $533.55, with interest.

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