Household Finance Corp. v. Seigel-Robert Plating Co.

DOWD, Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County entered on July 16, 1971, overruling the defendant-appellant’s motion to quash garnishment.

The history of this litigation is as follows. On July 17, 1969, plaintiff-respondent Household Finance Corporation (hereinafter H.F.C.) filed suit against defendant-appellant Ellen Tate to recover the sum of $2,332.51 plus interest. On December 17, 1969, the defendant filed a petition in bankruptcy in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division. She listed H.F.C. as an unsecured…