Court Opinion

ID: 3612114
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 23:55:58.960164+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:58:13.616832
License: Public Domain

The question involved in these appeals is one of practice merely in the court below. The judgments were for the recovery of money against the defendants, Joel and Tallcott Morehouse, and the amount recovered was also adjudged to be a lien and charge upon certain real estate devised to them by their father, and particularly described in the judgments, which was directed to be sold by the sheriff of Saratoga county, for the satisfaction of the debts. The executions issued thereon were, as stated in the motion papers, "in the usual form of executions or fi. fa's,
issued upon judgments for money," and it was claimed by the appellants that they were not appropriate to the enforcement of these judgments, and on that ground, and on some allegations as to the course of proceedings thereon, an application was made at Special Term to set them aside, which was denied, and the appeal to this court is from an order of affirmance by the General Term.
The respondent was entitled to the collection of the money recovered by him, and if the executions issued were not in the form prescribed by law, it was an irregularity, subject to correction by the court below; and it is settled by the decision in the case of Bank of Genesee v. Spencer
(18 N.Y. Rep., 150), that the order of the character appealed from does not affect a substantial right, within the third subdivision of section 11 of the Code. It related to the form and order of proceedings, and was the exercise of the jurisdiction of that court to control and regulate its process.
Orders in such cases are not appealable to this court.
If, however, an appeal was allowed, I concur in the views expressed in the opinion of BOCKES, J., at Special Term, on the merits. He has fully and ably considered the question *Page 192 
raised by the motions, and I cannot add anything material or useful to what he has there stated.
My conclusion is, that the appeals should be dismissed, or, if retained, the order should be affirmed, with costs in each case.