Case ID: ga_59/html/0706-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bleoicley, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Abel A. Lemon, plaintiff in error, vs. Wiley W. Thaxton, executor, defendant in error.
    1. Generally, if a creditor would exhaust his legal remedies against an estate so as to entitle himself to reach assets through a court of equity, he should obtain a judgment and fi. fa. which can-be levied of the goods etc., of the testator or intestate, and procure a return of nulla bona.
    
    
      2. A fi. fa. against an executor which directs the seizure of his property and not the property of the testator, cannot be levied upon the effects of the estate.
    Equity. Debtor and creditor. Levy and sale. Executors and administrators. Executions. Before Judge Buchanan. Butts Superior Court. March Term, 1877
    Report unnecessary.
    S. C. McDaniel ; Henry Hendrick, for plantiff in error.
    
      No appearance for defendant.
   Bleoicley, Judge.

The complainant seeks to reach assets of a testator which are of an equitable nature, and which are not accessible to him by means of ordinary legal process. lie alleges that he has obtained judgment against the executor, and annexes to his bill a copy of the ft. fa., on which there is a return of nuila bona. But the ft-fa., though it describes the defendant as executor, is against himpersonally. It contains no direction to levy of the goods, etc., of the testator. The presumption is that it follows the judgment, and consequently that the judgment is against the executor personally, and not in a condition to reach the effects of the estate until amended. 57 Ga., 159. We do not feel warranted in reversing the judgment dismissing the complainant’s bill.

Judgment affirmed.