Case Name: EVERSTINE v. McCASKEY REGISTER CO. et al
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1923-10-19
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 103
Docket Number: 
Parties: EVERSTINE v. McCASKEY REGISTER CO. et al
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 103–103

Head Matter:
No. 87
EVERSTINE v. McCASKEY REGISTER CO. et al
Ohio Appeals, 7th Dist., Mahoning County
Decided Oct. 19, 1923
639. INJUNCTION — Injunction lies to restrain levying execution when entry of Justice of the Peace is not a judgment.
Attorneys — D. W. Mumaw, for Everstine; W. W. Zimmerman, for McCaskey Register Co. et al.

Opinion:
PARR, J.
Epitomized Opinion
First Publication of this Opinion
This was an action to restrain the Sheriff of Mahoning county from levying an execution on the goods and chattels of one Everstine. The execution so issued was upon a judgment claimed to have been rendered by Sexton, a Justice of the Peace. The evidence disclosed that in March, 1921, the Cash Register Company filed a bill of particulars in the court of the Justice of Peace asking judgment against Everstine in the sum of $236.48. At the hearing the parties attempted to agree upon a suitable date for a trial, but no definite arrangement being made the Justice mlade an entry of confession of judgment. It was upon this judgment that the execution in question was issued. As the injunction was granted, the defendant appealed. In affirming the decree of the lower court, the Court of Appeals held:
1. The entry of the judgment really amounted to no judgment because nothing was determined and the entry of the alleged judgment is simply a statement invalid and of no effect so far as a judgment is concerned, because it was not a final determination of the rights of the parties in that it does not affirm, that a legal liability does or does not exist; therefore, the injunction was properly granted.