Quality Diesel Service, Inc. v. Tiger Drilling Company, LLC

DICKINSON, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. This case presents an issue of first impression concerning Mississippi’s garnishment law: When a party gets a judgment, timely executes a writ of garnishment, and timely initiates a garnishment proceeding, is that party required to renew the underlying judgment to • collect the “property in the hands of the. garnishee, belonging to the defendant” at the time the garnishment proceeding was filed,1 to defeat the running of the statute of limitations? Because we hold that a party is not required to renew the underlying judgment to collect such…