Case ID: ky-op_5/html/0101-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Pryor :", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Seber v. R. W. Nelson.
    Trespass — Action Against Constable for Damages for Sale of Property Under Execution May be Pleaded in Bar of an Action for Recovery of Specific Property.
    The constable had sold the property under execution and appellant elected to sue in trespass for the value of the property in which he obtained judgment against the constable, He cannot now maintain this action against appellee who obtained possession by his purchase under the execution.
    
      APPEAL FROM CAMPBELL CIRCUIT COURT.
    January 16, 1872.
    
      Hawkins, Baker, for appellant.
    
    
      Hallam, for appellee.
    
   Opinion by

Judge Pryor :

The action of trespass instituted by the present appellant against John Á. Nelson, the constable, in which he seeks not only to recover damages for the alleged trespass but also the value of the horse and two mules sold 'by him under the execution against Jacob Steiger, was properly pleaded as a bar to the present action of the appellant against the appellee for the recovery for the same property. The verdict of the jury for the appellant in the suit against the constable was for sixty dollars, the value of the brown mule, and the title to the horse and the other mule being- put directly in issue in that suit, and the appellant failing to recover was in effect determining that this horse and mule was subject to the execution against Steiger. The constable had sold this property under the execution and the appellant elected to sue in trespass for the value of the property.' He obtained the judgment against the constable and cannot now maintain this action for the recovery for the specific property as against the appellee, who obtained possession of it by his purchase under the execution. The judgment is affirmed.