Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0650-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

4218.
    Slaughter v. Manning.
    Decided October 9, 1912.
    Levy and claim; from city court of Vienna — Judge Lasseter. April 17, 1912.
    
      F. II. Kirlcland, W. V. Harvard, Jule Felton, for plaintiff in error.
    
      D. L. Henderson, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

1. An application to foreclose a landlord’s lien for supplies, against a tenant, where the amount claimed exceeds $100, can not be made to a justice of the peace; and where such application is made, and the justice of the peace has issued an execution thereon for a sum exceeding $100, the execution is absolutely void, and any lien thereon, and all further proceedings thereunder, are absolutely invalid. Civil . Code (1910), § 3366, subsections 3 and 4.

2. Where a landlord’s lien for supplies exceeding the sum of $100 is foreclosed before a justice of the peace, who issues an execution tíiereon for the sum claimed, and the execution is levied upon property in the possession of the tenant and a claim is interposed, the claimant, on the trial of the claim case, can challenge the legality of the foreclosure proceedings and the validity of the execution issued thereunder.

Judgment reversed.