Case ID: stew-p_1/html/0158-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Perry,. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BAYLOR versus McGREGOR & DARLING
    Motions in Court to credit an execution, or enter satisfaction on judgmehts ; must be preceded by notice to the opposite party.
    Baylor moved the Circuit Court of Jefferson county, to direct the sheriff to enter a credit on an execution subsisting against the plaintiff in favor of the defendants — and further, to compel satisfaction of the judgment entered of record. No other notice was given to the parties, than an entry on the motion docket. The Court overruled the motion, and the opinion of the Judge being excepted to, was here assigned as error.
   Perry,. J.

This was a motion in the Court below,- to direct the sheriff to enter a credit on an execution, which had been in his hands, in favor of McGregor and Darling, against said Baylor, and a satisfaction of the judgment upon which it had issued, entered of record. No notice other than the motion made on the motion docket was ever granted to the plaintiffs- in execution. A bill of exceptions was taken to the opinion of the Court overruling the motion; which judgment is now assigned as error. Without investigating- the merits of the case, upon the testimony disclosed in the bill of exceptions, it will be sufficient to observe, that all proceedings in Courts of Justice are predicated upon notice, actual or implied, given to the party whose rights are to be affected by the proceeding intended to be had. The plaintiffs in execution, therefore, having no notice of the motion involving their interest, the Court did not err in overruling the motion, and of this opinion is a majority of the Court. The judgment is therefore affirmed.

Collier, J. not sitting