Case Name: ELLEN M. VEDDER, Respondent, v. OLIVER R. LANSING, Appellant
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1887-05
Citations: 51 N.Y. Sup. Ct. 590
Docket Number: 
Parties: ELLEN M. VEDDER, Respondent, v. OLIVER R. LANSING, Appellant.
Judges: Mayham, J., concurred.
Reporter: Supreme Court Reports (Hun)
Volume: 51
Pages: 590–592

Head Matter:
ELLEN M. VEDDER, Respondent, v. OLIVER R. LANSING, Appellant.
Issue of execution upon a judgment recovered, in a Justice's Court and docketed in two counties — execution may be issued by the clerk of either county.
On January 29, 1876, the plaintiff recovered a judgment against the defendant for $200, a transcript of which was filed and the judgment docketed in the Pulton county clerk’s office on January 29, 1876. On February 1,1876, a transcript of the Pulton county judgment was filed and the j udgment was docketed in Saratoga county. The county judge of Pulton county having, in 1886, made an order permitting the plaintiff to issue execution upon the said judgment, an execution was, on August second of that year, issued by the county clerk of Pulton county to the sheriff of Saratoga county, the county in which the judgment debtor resided.
Held, that the Pulton county judge could make the order, and the Pulton county clerk could issue the execution, although it might have been properly issued by the Saratoga county clerk. (Learned, P. J., dissenting.)
Appeal from an order of the Fulton county judge, denying a motion made to vacate an order made by him requiring the defendant to answer upon examination before a referee concerning his property. Plaintiff obtained judgment against the defendant before a justice of the peace of Fulton County January 29, 1876, for $200. A transcript was filed, and the judgment docketed in the Fulton county clerk’s office January 29, 1876. A transcript of the Fulton county j udgment was filed, and the j udgment was docketed in the Saratoga county clei’k’s office February 1,1876. The affidavit upon which the order for examination was granted recites that an execution against the property of the judgment debtor was duly issued August 2, 1886, out of the Fulton County Court and delivered to the sheriff of Saratoga county, the county in which the judgment debtor resided; that the judgment debtor has property which he unjustly refuses to apply upon the judgment.
It did not appear upon the motion that any order had been granted allowing execution to issue in 1886, but a certified copy of such an order made by the county judge of Fulton county was presented upon the argument in this court.
Emmett Blair, for the appellant,
John M. Gardner, for the respondent.

Opinion:
Landon, J.:
The justice's judgment became a judgment of the Fulton County Court. (Code Civil Pro., § 3017.) "When the transcript was filed and the judgment docketed in Saratoga county, it had the like effect with respect to the enforcement thereof, as if it had been rendered by a justice of the peace of the latter county, except that application for leave to issue an execution would need to be made in the Fulton County Court. (Sec. 3022.) The county clerk issues the execution. (Sec. 3017.) The execution was properly issuable by the Saratoga county clerk. (Secs. 3022, 3043), and was returnable to his office. (Sec. 1367.) But the Fulton county clerk might also issue it. (Sec. 347.) This order was made under section 2436. The Fulton county judge could make it. (Sec. 772.) The objection that there was no order for leave to issue the execution in 1886, is now obviated by the presentation of the order granting leave. As it appeared from the affidavit that more than five years had elapsed before the issuing of the execution, the affidavit was no doubt defective in not showing leave granted. (Hutson v. Weld, 38 Hun, 142.)
The order should be affirmed, but without costs.
Mayham, J., concurred.