Case ID: root_1/html/0192-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "By the Court.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Worthington, Administrator of Daniel, Kellog, v. Hosmer.
    Where an execution has been prayed out, although after the death of the plaintiff, and delivered to an officer, and he has received the pay of the debtor and indorsed said execution; it is a good bar to a scire facias in favor of the administrator on said judgment.
    Scire Eacias to have a judgment recovered by said Daniel in his lifetime, affirmed in favor of the plaintiff; alleging that an execution had been issued, and a non est returned upon it; and which the defendant has never paid.
    The defendant plead in bar — That after said execution was returned non est, an alias execution was taken out in said Daniel’s name against her, and delivered to James Cornwell, a constable of Middletown, and she was compelled! to pay said execution, and did in fact pay it to said constable; and he thereupon indorsed said execution satisfied.
    The plaintiff replies — That before said alias was taken out the said Daniel died, and that the whole proceedings on said alias execution are null and void, and had by mistake. Demurrer to the reply.
    Judgment — That the reply is insufficient.
   By the Court.

Although it was irregular to take an alias execution, after the death of said Daniel without a scire facias; yet the defendant has been compelled to pay said debt, to the officer who had right to receive it, and indorse said execution satisfied, which had been done. She is therefore exonerated, and the administrator must look to the officer.