REPUBLICBANK DALLAS v. NATIONAL BANK

No. 9381.

705 S.W.2d 310 (1986)

REPUBLICBANK DALLAS, Appellant, v. The NATIONAL BANK OF DAINGERFIELD, Pat McGee, Marie McGee, Edwin McGee, and D.A. Hall, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Texarkana.

February 4, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Leithiser, Leithiser & Palmer, Dallas, for appellant.

Patricia H. Florence, Florence & Florence, Hughes Springs, for appellee Bank of Daingerfield.

Steve Cowan, Daingerfield, for appellees, intervenors McGees and Hall.


BLEIL, Justice.

RepublicBank Dallas appeals from an order dissolving its writ of garnishment against The National Bank of Daingerfield. The central issue is whether the funds in a joint checking account subject to the order of any one of four people can be garnished for the debts of one of them. We find that RepublicBank cannot garnish the funds in the joint account involved in these proceedings because the judgment debtor's ownership interest in the account is no...

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