Court Opinion

ID: 7184584
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:51:20.020068+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:01.861480
License: Public Domain

Buchanan, J.
The plaintiff sues for three billiard tables, seized by defendants, in execution of their judgment against one Judd, and in Judd's possession.
Plaintiff alleges that he sold those billiard tables to Judd, for the price of nine hundred and fifty dollars, in two notes, at ninety days and six months. Before the first of these notes fell due, the billiard tables were seized by the Sheriff, under defendants’ execution; and plaintiff claims the possession and ownership of them under a private writing filed with his petition, in which the sale of the billiard tables is recited, and it is further stipulated as follows : “ It is understood by the parties, that those billiard tables will be the property of B. Antognini, until final payment of those notes.”
Plaintiff enjoined the Sheriff’s sale upon this showing. The court below admitted this document in evidence, notwithstanding the opposition of the defendants, upon the simple evidence of the signature of Judd to the private writing filed with the petition.
We think the court erred. This private writing had no date as to third persons — at least, no date prior to that of its filing in this suit — and the plaintiff should have proved not only the signature of the document, but that it was made at the date which it bears. The defendants had acquired a lien upon, these billiard tables by their seizure before this suit was brought.
The plaintiff, as vendor, would have had no right to enjoin the Sheriff’s sale. He had only the right to claim the price, in virtue of the privilege of vendor, by third opposition. The suspensive condition-of the sale upon which plaintiff relies, is not made out hy sufficient evidence.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.