Bob Hankins Distributing Co. v. May

In ruling Arkansas’s Garnishment Code unconstitutional, the majority does not claim that no notice was given the appellant garnishee, See Armstrong v. Manzo, 380 U.S. 545 (1965); or that the notice effected here was not reasonably calculated to reach the appellant. Mullane v. Central Hanover Trust Co., 339 U.S. 306 (1950). The majority rests its decision on the narrow proposition that Arkansas law fails to provide “adequate” notice to the appellant of the nature of the garnishment proceedings against it. In my view, the law and the facts cannot support such a holding.

In Mullane, the Supreme…