Sec. 4051. Any person summoned as a garnishee or any officer, agent, or other person who appears and answers for a corporation summoned as a garnishee, who knowingly and wilfully answers falsely upon his disclosure or examination on oath is liable to the plaintiff in garnishment, or to his executors or administrators, to pay out of his own goods and estate the full amount due on the judgment recovered with interest, to be recovered in a civil action.
Mich. Comp. Laws § 600.4051
False answer by garnishee or agent; civil liability
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Miller v. Adell (In Re John Richards Homes Building Co.) (2009)
Most recently applied in Ladd v. Motor City Plastics Co. (October 2013)
1961, Act 236, Eff
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