Cummings v. Fingers

Tom Glaze, Justice.

This case involves a farm lease which resulted in the appellees, as lessors, obtaining a default judgment in circuit court against appellant, lessee, for past due rental payments in the amount of $5,250.00. After learning the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) was holding deficiency and disaster funds payable to appellant in the sum of $ 10,000.00, appellees filed a writ of garnishment against ASCS’s local office in an effort to obtain satisfaction of their judgment against the appellant. When ASCS ignored the garnishment proceeding, appellees then…