Case Name: Ex parte Lawrence
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1825-05
Citations: 4 Cow. 417
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte Lawrence.
Judges: 
Reporter: Cowen's Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 417–418

Head Matter:
Ex parte Lawrence.
A levy on perty™1 6uffi-^t0 jiatisf/ an extmguishy,dgm0nt
meut, therefore *°ab°sa tate, and the iüof^aa °nc fight, as such, dor the act Ch"
Toll obtained judgment against Chandler, and bid off Chandler’s land in Camillus, Onondaga county, on afi. fa. at $30, May 8th, 1823. Drake having a junior judgment for 82 55 against Chandler and one Hopping, assigned it to Lawrencé, who sued out a fi.fa. on which the sheriff made 43 dollars by a sale of Chandler’s personal property; and then levied on Hopping’s personal property to an amount sufficient to satisfy the fi. fa. and took a receipt for it. The sale of Hopping’s property was delayed from time to time, by Lawrence’s directions, till, in August, 1824, Lawrence claimed of the sheriff to redeem, as a judgment creditor of Chandler, the land sold, upon the senior judgment, to Toll; but the sheriff denied his right to redeem, and would not receive the money, or-give a conveyance; .and in September last, he sold Hopping’-spersonal property, and collected the residue of Lawrence’s fi. fa. .pursuant to his directions.
A mandamus was now.mqved for,to the sheriff of Onondaga, commanding .Him to convey to Lawrence..
G. Lawrence, for the motion.
B. D. Noxon, contra.

Opinion:
Curia.
Clearly this motion must he denied. The'levy ón the personal property of Hopping, to an amount sufficient to satisfy Lawrence's execution operated per se, a-s an extinguishment of his judgment. This has been often held. (Clerk v. Withers, 2 Ld. Raym. 1072. l Salk. 322. S. C. Ladd v. Blunt, 4 Mass. Rep. 403. Hoyt v. Hudson, 12 John. Rep. 207. Reed v. Pruyn & Staats, 7 id. 428-91) Lawrence's judgment ceased to he a lien from the'time oí the levy, and. of course "he could not redeem. (Matter of Hurd, 3 Cowen's Rep. 35. Mutter of Marsh, id. 69.)
Motion .denied