Court Opinion

ID: 9828905
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:50:08.202379+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:54.261187
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Appellant, in his motion for rehearing, insists with earnestness that we should have passed on the question as to whether the replevy bond was a statutory bond; that, if it were not a statutory bond, as he insists, then the judgment on it was void because the court was without jurisdiction, and the plaintiff would then have the right to attack it by injunction in this suit. We do not recede from our former position that the conclusions expressed in the original opinion are sufficient to dispose of the case. However, we think it proper to express the following views as to these other matters which appellant insists that we consider.
We are of the opinion that the trial court might have properly held in the original case that the replevy bond was a statutory bond. Its obligation is in the exact language of the statute, and we do not believe that the fact that it affords an alternative method of satisfaction renders it non-statutory. The statute itself provides the alternative. The fact that the bond recites that the property was appraised at $2,000 by the plaintiff presents the only other question as to the statutory character of the bond *509which we need consider. The law provides that the officer levying the writ shall appraise the value of the property, but does not provide how this fact shall he shown, nor that it shall be recited in the bond. Such officer in this instance had possession of the property, and passed on the sufficiency of the bond before releasing it. It ought to be presumed that he did his duty in this respect. The judgment on the bond recites that the officer did appraise the property at $2,000, and it is thus determined on the face of the judgment that the statute was complied with in the taking of the bond.
Overruled.