PEOPLE'S STATE BANK OF HARTVILLE v. JAMES

PEOPLE'S STATE BANK OF HARTVILLE v. JAMES
1926 OK 129
246 P. 451
117 Okla. 297
Case Number: 15950
Decided: 02/09/1926
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

PEOPLE'S STATE BANK OF HARTVILLE, MO.,
v.
JAMES et al.

Commissioners' Opinion, Division No. 4.

Error from District Court, Carter County; Asa E. Walden, Judge.

Action by the People's State Bank at Hartville, Mo., against S. J. James to recover debt. Garnishment proceedings ran against the American National Bank of Ardmore. Bessie James intervened in the cause claiming to be the owner of the funds garnished. Judgment for Bessie James, and the People's State Bank brings error. Affirmed.

Syllabus

¶0 1. Appeal and Error--Review--Sufficiency of Evidence in Law Action Tried to Court.
A judgment reached in the trial of a law action to the court will not be reversed on appeal, if there is any competent evidence which reasonably tends to support the judgment.
2. Same--Judgment Sustained.
Record examined; held, to be sufficient to support judgment in favor of the defendants.

E. Moore and Riddle & Dudley, for plaintiff in error.
Trice & Davidson and R. A. Howard, for defendants in error.

STEPHENSON, C.

¶1 The People's State Bank of Hartville, Mo., commenced its action against S. J. James in the district court of Carter county to recover indebtedness on a note. The plaintiff caused certain money in the hands of the American National Bank of Ardmore to be garnished as the funds of the defendant. Bessis James intervened in the cause, and alleged that she was the owner of the money. The trial of the cause resulted in a judgment for Bessie James. The plaintiff has appealed the cause here, and assigns as error that the judgment in favor of Bessie James is contrary to the law and the evidence.