Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Sugrue
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided May 5, 1995No. Civ. A. MISC. 93-411 (JR)PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ROBERTSON, District Judge.
This proceeding raises the question whether valuable but uncompensated services rendered by a judgment debtor to a garnishee may be subjected to garnishment under D.C.Code § 16-579 without proof that the garnishee is liable to the debtor.
On November 2, 1993, after a jury verdict, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas entered a money judgment against Timothy Sugrue, a priest, for torts he committed against plaintiff while he was serving as a chaplain in the United States Air Force during the 1970s. Fr. Sugrue was then and is…
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