Bob Hankins Distributing Co. v. May

In Travelodge International, Inc. v. Handleman Nat. Book Co., 288 Ark. 368, 705 S.W.2d 440 (1986), a judgment creditor attacked pleadings and discovery responses filed by its garnishee. We held that Ark. R. Civ. P. 5(c), 10(a), 7(a), and 5(e) were inapplicable to pleadings in a garnishment proceeding because it is a special statutory action excepted from application of the Rules by Rule 81 (a). We wrote, “The procedures followed by the defendant-garnishee in this case were consistent with the garnishment statutes, and were thus appropriate.” In that case, however, we held that Rule 60(b) did…