525.290. Garnishment of wages--personal service upon defendant required--exception--petition and summons to show cause of action. - Missouri Statutes

Garnishment of wages--personal service upon defendantrequired--exception--petition and summons to show cause ofaction.

525.290. No wages shall be garnished in aid of attachmentbefore personal service is had or obtained upon the defendant,unless the suit be brought in the county where the defendantresides, or in the county where the debt is contracted and thecause of action arose or accrued, and in cities over one hundredthousand inhabitants in the city where the defendant resides orthe debt is contracted and the cause of action accrued; provided,the petition or statement filed in the cause and writ ofattachment shall affirmatively show the place where the defendantresides and the place where the debt is contracted and the causeof action arose.

(RSMo 1939 § 1588, A.L. 1945 p. 652)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 1424; 1919 § 1874