Lynch v. Household Finance Corp.

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1972-04-24

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Mr. Justice Stewart delivered the opinion of the Court. In 1968, the appellant, Mrs. Dorothy Lynch, a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, directed her employer to deposit $10 of her $69 weekly wage in a credit union savings account. In 1969, appellee Household Finance Corp. sued Mrs. Lynch for $525 in a state court, alleging nonpayment of a promissory note. Before she was served with process, the appellee corpo…

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