Key legal question
Whether opposition proceedings may be opened for a wage garnishment when the third-party wage debtor asserts a setoff against the debtor.
Extracted holding
No. The employer does not assert a legal claim to the garnished object as creditor or pledgee; his setoff defense concerns only the enforceability of the wage claim and must be litigated separately in ordinary civil proceedings.
Extracted reasoning
There is no third-party objection in the statutory sense because the debtor’s ownership of the wage claim is not disputed. The alleged counterclaim and right of setoff lie outside the enforcement procedure and do not justify an opposition proceeding.