If, when duly summoned, the garnishee fail to appear and answer the garnishment, the garnishee shall be presumed to be indebted to the defendant to the full amount of the plaintiff's demand, and a conditional judgment shall be entered up against the garnishee accordingly.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 29-7-114
Default by garnishee — Conditional judgment
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Kanipe v. First Tennessee Bank (In Re Kanipe) (2002)
Most recently applied in Kenosha Hospital & Medical Center v. Garcia (July 2004)
Code 1858, § 3486 (deriv
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.