Court Opinion

ID: 9531790
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:14:31.951757+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:34.979716
License: Public Domain

HUNTLEY, Justice,
dissenting.
The lesson taught by this case is:
“If the majority of an appellate court wishes to affirm ‘no matter what’—
*708The affirmance will issue ‘no matter what’ ”
I join the dissent of Justice Bistline and add my own because the record clearly establishes several reversible errors committed by the trial court in refusing to set aside the mobile home sale, which errors were assigned on appeal.
The majority neither addresses the errors nor justifies its failure to do so.
There are at least four reasons the court erred in refusing to quash the execution on and sale of the motor home:
(1) There can issue but one writ of execution at a time within a single county, and the previous writ had not been returned nor the proceeds of it accounted for at the time the subject writ issued. I.C. § 11 — 107
(2) The sheriff’s levy was not properly made, whether the mobile home be considered real or personal property in that
(a) if real property, six days’ notice of sale rather than the required thirty days was given; (b) if personal property, the sheriff neither took the required possession nor utilized the alternative of a sheriff’s keeper.
(3) The sheriff improperly refused to permit Campbell to bid an amount in excess of the cash he had with him, thus refusing Campbell a reasonable time to bring the cash payment for a successive bid (30 Am. Jur.2d 664, Executions § 375).
(4) The writ and levy were for an amount in excess of the balance due Curtis.
These four discrepancies (and several others noted by Justice Bistline) both individually and collectively void the levy and sale, thus compelling a reversal with directions to set aside the sale and determine the balance, if any, due from Campbell to Curtis.