2010 Tennessee Code
Title 20 - Civil Procedure
Chapter 1 - Parties to Actions
20-1-118 - Default judgment against levying officer.

20-1-118. Default judgment against levying officer.

Upon written notice from the levying officer being served upon the party at whose instance the process issued, stating the nature of the suit, the court in which it is pending, and demanding that the party come into court and be substituted in the place of the officer, and stating the day upon which the application for substitution shall be made, if the party does not appear and become substituted in the officer's place, the officer may permit judgment to go by default against the officer or make defense.

[Acts 1859-1860, ch. 104, § 2; Shan., § 4499; mod. Code 1932, § 8626; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 20-119.]  

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