On judgment against an individual partner, a debtor of the firm cannot be garnished, since he is not for the reason of being indebted to the firm, a debtor of the individual partner, and since partnership property and assets cannot be taken on execution upon judgment against the individual partner.19 But on judgment against a partnership, a debtor of an individual partner may be garnished, since the property of the individual partner is subject to levy of execution on such judgment.20

16 Holbrook vs. Lackey, 13 Met-calf, 132; Ames' Cases on Partnership, page 160 and note; Bossett vs. Miller, 39 Mich., 133; Strange vs. Graham, 56 Ala., 614; Robertshaw vs. Hanway, 52 Miss., 713; contra: only an equitable, not legal, right; Hughes vs. Trahern, 64 III., 48.

17 Beaman vs. Whitney, 20 Me., 413; Morse vs. Carpenter, 19 Vt., 613; Silverman vs. Kristug;k, 162 III., 222; Todd vs. ines, 9 C. L. J. (Minn.), 338.

18 Burns vs. Edwards, 163 III., 494.