Case ID: ohio-cc_11/html/0268-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Smith, J", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(First Circuit—Hamilton Co., O., Circuit Court
    Jan. Term, 1896.)
    Before Swing, Cox and Smith, JJ.
    PETER RENNER v. NICHOLAS BURKE.
    
      Execution — Money made ,by Sheriff ”on an execution on a judgment in favor of a party, may be applied by him on an execution [held by him against such party.
    
    Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton county.
    
      Mr. Werner, attorney, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Mr. Disney, attorney for defendant in error
   Smith, J

We are of the opinion that where the sheriff has in his hands an execution against a certain person, collects the money from him thereon, and at the same .time holds an execution against the person to whom the money so collected would be payable, that such sheriff has the right to credit thereon so much of the same as is necessary to satisfy in whole or in part such execution This is the express statement of the law by Judge Swan, in his Treatise, page 282, and it seems entirely reasonable and proper In such case a return oh the facts by the sheriff upon the execution, will operate to discharge him from liability to pay the money so credited, to the judgment creditor, as otherwise he would have been bound to do

The judgment of the court of common pleas will be reversed, and the cause remanded for further proceedings