Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-21 21:08:45.700992+00
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Badt, J.
I concur reluctantly in the order granting the writ of mandamus (1) because I fear that the asserted inadequacy of legal remedies works both ways in this case; (2) because I am not convinced that the execution issued in Stella B. Leonard Belanger v. Belanger, Childers and Vrenon, following the form of the judgment in that case, ordering the immediate delivery of the livestock to the plaintiff is within the contemplation of the third-party claim statute (though no authorities pointing out the distinction have been presented) ; (3) because the granting of the writ of mandamus which in effect orders the sheriff to take the cattle from the possession of Mrs. Leonard and deliver the same to the Bowlers, in a proceeding to which Mrs. Leonard is not a party, is subject to the same criticism as the action of the sheriff which we condemn, namely, his taking of the cattle from the possession of the Bowlers by virtue of a writ pursuant to a judgment in an action to which the Bowlers were not parties; (4) because our opinion and judgment in this proceeding can determine nothing as to the conflicting claims of the parties and because such conflicting claims have not yet been determined; and (5) because, in view of the fact that title to the cattle was adjudicated to be in Mrs. Leonard in two prior actions (the first against her husband and the second against him, Childers and Vrenon), I am in doubt but that an earlier status quo should be contemplated than the status at the time of the sheriff’s seizure of the cattle. However, despite these doubts, I do not feel free to dissent in view of the holding of this court in State ex rel. Sugarman v. Lamb, Sheriff, 37 Nev. 19, 138 P. 907, in which this court by mandamus commanded the sheriff to return to the plaintiff in replevin property which the sheriff had theretofore returned to the defendant, because the latter had *113failed to comply with statutory requirements to obtain such return. Conceding the distinction between a sheriff’s duties under replevin and his duties under execution of a judgment such as the one here involved, the analogy and reasoning of this court in that case, as well as the other authorities cited in the opinion of the chief justice are sufficient to preclude my dissent.
March 27, 1950.
216 P.2d 274.
Morley Griswold and George L. Vargas, both of Reno, for Petitioners.
John S. Sinai, of Reno, and Andrew L. Haight, of Fallon, for Respondent.