Effective - 28 Aug 1939
525.160. Railroad to answer garnishment for wages, when. — Except as herein provided, no railroad corporation shall be required to make answer to any interrogatories propounded to it, in any action against any person to whom it may be indebted on account of wages due for personal services, nor shall any default or other liabilities attach because of its failure to so answer in such cases, where a writ of garnishment was issued or served in advance of the recovery by the plaintiff against the defendant, in any action for two hundred dollars or less; and any judgment rendered against any railroad corporation for its said failure or refusal to make answer to any garnishment so issued or served before the recovery of final judgment in the action between the plaintiff and defendant in the cases mentioned in section 525.150 shall be void, and any officer entering said judgment or who may execute the same shall be taken and considered a trespasser and in addition thereto may be enjoined by any court having jurisdiction; provided, this section shall not apply when the debt or claim sued for was contracted or accrued in this state; provided further, in such cases the petition or statement filed in the cause and the writ or summons of garnishment shall affirmatively show that the debt or claim sued for was contracted or accrued in this state and is owing to a bona fide citizen or resident of this state.
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(RSMo 1939 § 1575)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 1411; 1919 § 1861; 1909 § 2428
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Section 525.010 - Who may be summoned as garnishees.
Section 525.020 - Garnishees summoned, how.
Section 525.040 - Effect of notice of garnishment — priority based on date of service.
Section 525.050 - Notice of garnishment, how served on corporations.
Section 525.060 - Return of writ, how made.
Section 525.070 - Garnishee may discharge himself, how.
Section 525.080 - Garnishee to deliver property, or pay debts, or may give bond therefor.
Section 525.090 - Claimants may interplead.
Section 525.100 - Adjudication of costs.
Section 525.110 - Execution same as on general judgment.
Section 525.120 - Courts may prescribe rules.
Section 525.140 - Garnishee shall file answer — failing, judgment by default.
Section 525.150 - Garnishment for wages, issued against railroad, when.
Section 525.160 - Railroad to answer garnishment for wages, when.
Section 525.170 - Judgment by default, how rendered final — extent and effect of against garnishee.
Section 525.180 - Answer of garnishee excepted to, adjudged insufficient — proceedings.
Section 525.190 - Denial of garnishee to answer, how — replication — issues tried, how.
Section 525.200 - What proceedings had, if effects found in hands of garnishee — judgment.
Section 525.210 - Answer taken as sufficient, when.
Section 525.220 - If answer admits effects or indebtedness, proceedings.
Section 525.240 - Costs adjudged against plaintiff, when — allowance to garnishee.
Section 525.250 - Adjudication of costs in other cases.
Section 525.260 - Debts not due may be attached.
Section 525.300 - Wages earned out of state exempt — exception.
Section 525.310 - Compensation of state and municipal employees subject to garnishment, procedure.