1-440.27. Failure of garnishee to appear.
(a) When a garnishee, after being duly summoned, fails to file a verified answer as required, the clerk of the court shall enter a conditional judgment for the plaintiff against the garnishee for the full amount for which the plaintiff shall have prayed judgment against the defendant, together with such amount as in the opinion of the clerk will be sufficient to cover the plaintiff's costs.
(b) The clerk shall thereupon issue a notice to the garnishee requiring him to appear not later than 10 days after the date of service of the notice, and show cause why the conditional judgment shall not be made final. If, after service of such notice, the garnishee fails to appear within the time named and file a verified answer to the summons to the garnishee, or if such notice cannot be served upon the garnishee because he cannot be found within the county where the original summons to such garnishee was served, then in either such event, the clerk shall make the conditional judgment final. (1947, c. 693, s. 1.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
§ 1-440 - Superseded by Session Laws 1947, c693, codified as § 1- 440.1 et seq.
§ 1-440.1 - Nature of attachment.
§ 1-440.2 - Actions in which attachment may be had.
§ 1-440.3 - Grounds for attachment.
§ 1-440.4 - Property subject to attachment.
§ 1-440.5 - By whom order issued; when and where; filing of bond and affidavit.
§ 1-440.6 - Time of issuance with reference to summons or service by publication.
§ 1-440.7 - Time within which service of summons or service by publication must be had.
§ 1-440.8 - General provisions relative to bonds.
§ 1-440.9 - Authority of court to fix procedural details.
§ 1-440.10 - Bond for attachment.
§ 1-440.11 - Affidavit for attachment; amendment.
§ 1-440.12 - Order of attachment; form and contents.
§ 1-440.13 - Additional orders of attachment at time of original order; alias and pluries orders.
§ 1-440.14 - Notice of issuance of order of attachment when no personal service.
§ 1-440.15 - Method of execution.
§ 1-440.16 - Sheriff's return.
§ 1-440.17 - Levy on real property.
§ 1-440.18 - Levy on tangible personal property in defendant's possession.
§ 1-440.19 - Levy on stock in corporation.
§ 1-440.20 - Levy on goods in warehouses.
§ 1-440.21 - Nature of garnishment.
§ 1-440.22 - Issuance of summons to garnishee.
§ 1-440.23 - Form of summons to garnishee.
§ 1-440.24 - Form of notice of levy in garnishment proceeding.
§ 1-440.25 - Levy upon debt owed by, or property in possession of, the garnishee.
§ 1-440.26 - To whom garnishment process may be delivered when garnishee is corporation.
§ 1-440.27 - Failure of garnishee to appear.
§ 1-440.28 - Admission by garnishee; setoff; lien.
§ 1-440.29 - Denial of claim by garnishee; issues of fact.
§ 1-440.30 - Time of jury trial.
§ 1-440.31 - Payment to defendant by garnishee.
§ 1-440.32 - Execution against garnishee.
§ 1-440.33 - When lien of attachment begins; priority of liens.
§ 1-440.34 - Effect of defendant's death after levy.
§ 1-440.35 - Sheriff's liability for care of attached property; expense of care.
§ 1-440.36 - Dissolution of the order of attachment.
§ 1-440.37 - Modification of the order of attachment.
§ 1-440.38 - Stay of order dissolving or modifying an order of attachment.
§ 1-440.39 - Discharge of attachment upon giving bond.
§ 1-440.40 - Defendant's objection to bond or surety.
§ 1-440.41 - Defendant's remedies not exclusive.
§ 1-440.43 - Remedies of third person claiming attached property or interest therein.
§ 1-440.44 - When attached property to be sold before judgment.
§ 1-440.45 - When defendant prevails in principal action.