Court Opinion

ID: 6688930
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-20 21:35:37.24001+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:01:02.911078
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PODEEY, J.
Upon the filing of a proper undertaking and affidavit by one of the plaintiffs, from which, it appeared that defendant was a nonresident of this state, and that plaintiffs had a cause of action against defendant for a definite sum of money, a warrant of attachment regular in form was issued and a levy made upon certain property of the defendant. A tidal of the cause resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of plaintiff. From this judgment defendant appealed to this court, and the case is reported in 152 N. W. 694. Thereafter, upon defendant’s motion, the court vacated and discharged the attachment, and, from the order vacating the same, plaintiffs appeal.
[1] Defendant did not question the regularity of the attachment proceedings nor deny the existence of the grounds for the issuance thereof, as stated in plaintiff’s affidavit upon which the attachment was issued; and it is the contention of appellants that the court was without authority to ser aside the attachment and thus subject them to an action for damages on the attachment bond. In this contention appellants are clearly right, unless other reasons existed for vacating the attachment.
[2] It appears from the record that, when the action was commenced, and when the levy under the warrant of attachment was made, John C. Noziska and F. F. Sinkler were the sole plaintiffs. Thereafter, and prior to the trial of the case, the names of the plaintiffs were changed from John C. Noziska and F. F. S'inkler to “Jofm C. Noziska, E. D. Noziska, and D. L- Noziska, co-partners doing-business under the firm name and style of Colome Mercantile Company, and F. F. Sinkler.” In other words, the co-partnership' of which John C. Noziska was a member was substituted for John C. Noziska individual^. It is contended by respondent that this was such a change of plaintiffs as amounted to an abandonment of the attachment and a release of the sureties on ■the bond. With this contention we cannot agree. In the first place, the levy and seizure of respondent’s property under the warrant of attachment had been made, and the liability, if any, of the sureties fixed, before the change -of plaintiffs was made. *225In the second .place, the change that was made in the name of the plaintiff cannot 'be held to amount to an abandonment of the attachment. The cause of action set up in the original complaint and in the affidavit for attachment was the same cause of action upon which appellants afterwards recovered. Respondent’s rights were in no wise affected- by the change, and, as i-s said in Holway v. Am. Exch. Nat. Bank, 64 Neb. 67, 89 N. W. 382, cited by respondent, the attachment proceeding is merely ancillary to and follows -the cause of action tha-t was the basis of its issuance.
[3] The judgment entered in this case is a simple money judgment, and contains no order directing a sale of the attached property. It is contended by respondent that the failure to -include such order in the judgment amounts to a waiver and abandonment of the attachment. It is so held in some states, but such holdings seem to be based upon statutes requiring that the judgment direct a sale of the attached property. Bremer & Co. v. Fleckenstein et al., 9 Or. 266. But no such direction is necessary under a-statute like ours. Section 218, C. C. Pr., provides that:
“In case judgment be entered for the plaintiff in such action, the sheriff shall satisfy the same out of the property attached by him, if it shall he sufficient for .that purpose.' *■ * *”
This -section of the Code is itself a mandate to the sheriff to satisfy the judgment out of the attached property, and no order of court for that purpose is necessary.
[4] Under the provisions of section 208, C. C. Pri, if an attachment is set aside for any reason, the plaintiff and his sureties become liable for all damages defendant.may have suffered by reason thereof, and this, too, whether plaintiff prevails in the action or not. This being the case,- plaintiffs’ rights were prejudiced by the order vacating .the attachment.
The order appealed from is reversed.