Allison v. Tyson

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Presiding Judge.

This appeal involves a garnishment proceeding and the consequences flowing from a garnishor’s failure to timely file his exceptions to a garnishee’s interrogatory answers. We hold that the failure to timely file exceptions deprives the circuit court of jurisdiction to proceed further and terminates the garnishment action. We, therefore, reverse the judgments and remand this case for dismissal by the circuit court.

On November 1, 1996, Joe Allison obtained a monetary judgment against Gene Tyson from a Texas state court. On June 8, 2000, Allison registered the…