642.9 Failure to appear or answer — cause shown.
If, duly summoned, and the garnishee’s fees tendered when demanded, the garnishee fails to appear and answer the interrogatories propounded to the garnishee without sufficient excuse, the garnishee shall be presumed to be indebted to the defendant to the full amount of the plaintiff’s demand, but for a mere failure to appear no judgment shall be rendered against the garnishee until the garnishee has had an opportunity to show cause against the same.
[C51, §1869, 1870; R60, §3205, 3206; C73, §2984, 2985; C97, §3943; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, §12166; C46, 50, 54, 58, 62, 66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §642.9]
Structure Iowa Code
Title XV - JUDICIAL BRANCH AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURES
Section 642.1 - Who may be garnished.
Section 642.2 - Garnishment of public employer.
Section 642.3 - Fund in court.
Section 642.4 - Death of garnishee.
Section 642.5 - Sheriff may take answers.
Section 642.6 - Garnishee required to appear.
Section 642.7 - Examination in court.
Section 642.9 - Failure to appear or answer — cause shown.
Section 642.10 - Paying or delivering.
Section 642.11 - Answer controverted.
Section 642.12 - Notice of controverting pleadings.
Section 642.13 - Judgment against garnishee.
Section 642.14 - Notice of garnishment proceedings.
Section 642.14A - Notice to defendant — nonemployer garnishees.
Section 642.14B - Notice to defendant — employer garnishees.
Section 642.15 - Pleading by defendant — discharge of garnishee.
Section 642.16 - When debt not due.
Section 642.17 - Negotiable paper — indemnity.
Section 642.18 - Judgment conclusive.
Section 642.19 - Docket to show garnishments.
Section 642.21 - Exemption from net earnings.
Section 642.22 - Validity of garnishment notice — duty to monitor account.
Section 642.23 - Support disbursements by the clerk.