2015 Mississippi Code
Title 11 - CIVIL PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Chapter 35 - GARNISHMENT
§ 11-35-19 - Garnishment against public officer or employee; failure to answer writ; penalty
Any person upon whom, in his representative capacity as above set out in Section 11-35-11, there shall be served a writ of garnishment under the provisions of Sections 11-35-1 and 11-35-11 through 11-35-21 shall, if he shall fail or refuse to answer such writ as provided by law in other cases of writs of garnishment and answers thereto forfeit and pay to the plaintiff in the judgment upon which the writ has issued the sum of twenty-five dollars, the same to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.
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