Court Opinion

ID: 7155704
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:07:41.901374+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:14.139226
License: Public Domain

Opinion by
Judge Cofer :
The acts set up in the original petition, and those relied upon in the amended petition, it seems to us, constitute distinct causes of action. The act which was relied upon in the original petition as within the statute was the payment of money to the bank, while the act relied upon in the amended, petition was the delivery of wheat to J. A. Vesch and James Tucker to indemnify them as sureties to the bank. They were the persons preferred, according to the facts as finally developed, while the bank was the creditor preferred according to the facts alleged in the original petition. The preference to them operated incidentally to prefer the bank, but it is evident the *843main purpose was to prefer J. A. Vesch and James Tucker, and not the bank, which we are authorized to assume was already secured. The amended petition was not filed until more than six months after the delivery of the wheat, and therefore came too late.

Caldwell & Harwood, for appellants.

Bullock & Beckham, for appellee.

The payment to the bank was made after appellants’ attachment had been placed in the hands of the officer, and when levied the lien was perfected and related back to the time when the attachments came to the officer’s hands.
Wherefore the judgment is reversed and cause remanded with directions to pay the appellants in full before distributing to other creditors any part of the proceeds of the attached property.