Case ID: mich_139/html/0232-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hooker, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LESTER v. ADDISON.
    Exemptions — Execution Sale — Conversion—Evidence.
    In trover against a sheriff for selling exempt property on execution, evidence examined, and held that, on plaintiff’s own showing, the property was not sold on execution, hut on foreclosure of a chattel mortgage, and that a verdict was properly directed for defendant.
    Error to St. Joseph; Yaple, J.
    .Submitted February 16,1905.
    (Docket No. 172.)
    Decided February 28, 1905.
    Trover by Bernard H. Lester and another against William R. Addison. There was judgment for defendant on a verdict directed by the court, and plaintiffs bring error.
    Affirmed.
    
      George H. Arnold, for appellants.
    
      B. B. Pealer and George E. Miller, for appellee.
   Hooker, J.

On July 5, 1901, execution was issued on a judgment obtained by Ederheimer, Stein & Oo. against the plaintiffs. On July 5, 1901, this execution was levied by Ammon Hahn, deputy sheriff under the defendant, upon a stock of goods owned by the plaintiffs, and on July 10th they were excluded from possession. On July 17th the inventory and appraisement were completed, and plaintiffs were told to be on hand that afternoon to care for exemptions. They came at the designated time and began to take out exemptions, when the defendant announced that he had a chattel mortgage upon all the goods, and that he would not permit exemptions to be removed from the store, whereupon no further attempt to select them was made. Hahn set aside goods alleged to amount to $510 for exemptions, and then sold the stock to the execution creditors for $25, subject to the exemptions and mortgage. An hour or so later the defendant sold all of the goods to Muncey at chattel mortgage sale, leaving a deficiency upon the mortgage. An action of trover was brought against the sheriff for the exemptions, and at the close of plaintiffs’ evidence a verdict was directed for the defendant.

Upon the plaintiffs’ own showing, their exemptions were not sold on execution, and were sold on the foreclosure of the mortgage. There was no unlawful conversion by the defendant. It is unnecessary to discuss other points.

No error is found, and the judgment is affirmed.

Carpenter, Blair, Montgomery, and Ostrander, JJ., concurred.