CAROLINA PAPER COMPANY, INC. v. Bouchelle

MOORE, Justice.

G.S. 1-440.21 states that “garnishment is not an independent action but is a proceeding ancillary to attachment and is the remedy for discovering and subjecting to attachment . . . any indebtedness to the defendant and any other intangible personal property belonging to him. ...” This same section states that “a garnishee is a person, firm, association, or corporation to which such a summons as specified by § 1-440.23 is issued.”

After defining garinshment, our statutes set forth the procedures to be followed in garnishment proceedings. G.S. 1-440.22 provides that “a summons to…