Case Name: George Stewart v. Jane Robinson
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1872-03
Citations: 24 La. Ann. 182
Docket Number: No. 3610
Parties: George Stewart v. Jane Robinson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Annual Reports
Volume: 24
Pages: 182–183

Head Matter:
No. 3610.
George Stewart v. Jane Robinson.
Xf an injunction bas been obtained against tlio enforcement of a judgment and tlie evidence given on tlie trial of a rule to dissolve it shows clearly that the plaintiff bad no grounds for injunction, then damages will be given against tbo plaintiff in injunction, regulated by tlie amount of tlie judgment injoined.
Appeal from the Sixth District Court, parish of Orleans. Cooley, J.
JB. C. Elliott, for plaintiff and appellant. V. O. King and B. King 'Cutler, for defendant and appellee.

Opinion:
Taliaferro, J.
This case was before the appellate court in January, 1871, 23 An. 83, upon an injunction taken out by the defendant to stay an order of seizure and sale, issued at the suit of the plaintiff and under which 1he sheriff had seized several town lots in the city of Jefferson, mortgaged to secure the payment of a note for tlie sum of $1276 90, with interest. The judgment of the lower court, dissolving the injunction, was affirmed by this court. After filing the mandate in the court below the plaintiff renewed the seizure, and was again opposed by a second injunction, which forms the basis of the present action. There was an intervention filed in the case by a Miss Boyle, which was dismissed.
Tlie grounds stated by defendant for the injunction are:
Eirst — That under a writ of seizure and sale and a writ of fieri facias, issued by plaintiff on the fifteenth of February, 1871, the property of defendant was seized and advertised to bo sold on the eighth of April following; but that the sheriff illegally postponed the sale so advertised to the thirteenth of May, then next ensuing, without the consent of tlie defendant and to her detriment.
Second — That no legal sale of the property could be made under the writ of fi. fa. on the thirteenth of May, because it hail expired, no -return or renewal of tho writ having been made.
Third — -That defendant had no notice to appoint an appraiser, a right which she claims under article six hundred and seventy-one of the Code of Practice.
The defendant in injunction took a rule upon the plaintiff to show •cause why tho injunctions should not bo dissolved. Upon trial of "the rule, the injunction was dissolved, and from that judgment the •defendant in the suit appealed. Tho grounds sot up by tho defendant for suing out this injunction are not sustained by the evidence in the record. A suspension of tho writ of fieri facias it seems occurred from, the intervention of Miss Boyle, claiming the property as owner, hut it is shown that at the expiration of the writ, about the last of April, it was duly returned, and a duly certified copy obtained from the clerk as required by law, the seizure being preserved. The record shows that the defendant had notice to appear and appoint an appraiser.
The appellee prays that the judgment of the lower court be amended by allowing him twentj^ per cent, damages against the appellant for •an abuse of the remedy of injunction and for vexatious delay in enforcing his claim. The evidence shows that the plaintiff had no grounds for tho injunction.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of the lower court he amended so as to condemn the plaintiff in injunction, and her sureties on the injunction bond, in solido to pay the plaintiff as damages ten per cent, upon the amount of the judgment, the enforcement of which was injoined, and as thus amended that the decree of the court a qua be affirmed with costs.
Rehearing refused.