West Virginia Code § 38-7-27

Failure of garnishee to answer
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If any garnishee, summoned as provided in this article, fail to answer, the court may either
compel him to answer, or hear proof of the matters required by section twenty-four of this
article to be disclosed by the garnishee's answer, concerning any debt or liability due by him
to, or personal property in his possession or under this control of, the defendant in such
attachment, and make such orders in relation thereto as if what is so provede had appeared in
his answer.

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