him; and if he disclose the property in his hands, or the true amount owing by him, and deliver or pay the same according to the order of the court, he shall be allowed his costs.
Sect. 27. If the garnishee do not appear and answer, as required by section twenty-five, the justice may proceed against him by attachment, as for a contempt.
Sect. 28. If the garnishee appear and answer, and it is discovered on his examination, that at or after the service of the order of attachment and notice upon him, he was possessed of any property of the defendant, or was indebted to him, the justice may order the delivery of such property and the payment of the amount owing by the garnishee into the court, or may permit the garnishee to retain the property or the amount owing, upon the execution of an undertaking to the plaintiff, by one or more sufficient sureties, to the effect that the amount shall be paid or the property forthcoming, as the court may direct.
Sect. 29. If the garnishee fail to appear and answer, or if he appear and answer, and his disclosure is not satisfactory to the plaintiff; or if he fail to comply with the order of the justice to deliver the property and pay the money owing into court, or give the undertaking required in the preceding section, the plaintiff may proceed against him in an action, in his own name, as in other cases; and thereupon such proceedings may be had as in other actions, and judgment may be rendered in favor of the plaintiff, for the amount of the property and credits of every kind of the defendant in the possession of the garnishee, and for what shall appear to be owing by him to the defendant, and for the costs of the proceedings against the garnishee. If the plaintiff proceed against the plaintiff pay garnishee by action, for the cause that his disclosure was unsatisfactory, unless it appear in the action that such disclosure was incomplete, the plaintiff shall pay the costs of such action. The judgment in this action may be enforced as judgments in other cases. When the claims of the plaintiff in attachment are satisfied, the defendant in the attachment may, on motion, be substituted as the plaintiff in the judgment.
Sect. 30. Final judgment shall not be rendered against the garnishee until the action against the defendant in attachment has been determined; and if, in such action, judgment be rendered for the defendant in attachment, the garnishee