Court Opinion

ID: 3895644
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:27:36.419572+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:54:37.218922
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Suit before a single magistrate; appeal to the County Court, andfrom thence to this court. — The plaintiff owed a person of the name of Norman $10, who obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace. Execution issued; was levied by the defendant, and $9.75 made. The execution issued in September, 1806, and no return was made to the justice till the 15th of January, 1809. It appeared that the defendant made a second levy, but *Page 40 
whether for the same debt; whether he had levied by a new execution, or levied by virtue of the old, did not appear, nor was ascertained. To relieve his property from this levy, the defendant assigned a note to the plaintiff. To recover back the amount of the note, this action was brought before a justice.
If the jury should be of opinion that the defendant levied on the same execution a second time, after it had been satisfied by the first levy; and that the plaintiff assigned the note to relieve his property from execution, they ought to give a verdict for the plaintiff. But otherwise, if the plaintiff voluntarily assigned the note, without any restraint whatever. The execution should have been returned within twenty days after it issued, but not returning it in time would not vitiate the proceedings under it. It was not made to appear when the constable levied on and sold the property. The law will presume it was correctly done; that is, before the expiration of the twenty days allowed by law, for the return of the execution.
Verdict for the defendant.