Dillon Co. v. Davis

Marvin Davis wrote a bad check for $50 at a Dillon’s groceiy store in Wichita, and Dillon Companies, Inc. obtained a judgment against him in 1991 for $405. The judgment was left fully unpaid until 2004, when Dillon’s successfully garnished $123.28 from Davis’ accounts at the El Dorado Correctional Facility, where Davis is an inmate.

Davis challenges both the garnishment and the original judgment against him. He argues that he was not properly served with the petition in 1991 and that the garnishment wrongly took $51.75 of his wages — called “incentive pay” in the correctional facility— with a…