Court Opinion

ID: 7962651
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 00:47:43.499108+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:34:32.625340
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By the Court.

McMillan, J.
The judgments upon which the title of the defendant Gaston in each of these cases rests, were rendered in actions, in each of which Thomas Daly was plaintiff and Wilber M. Hayward, William H. Randall, Charles G. Petteys, James Y. Caldwell, William J. Brunson and James L. Farwell were defendants. The judgments were entered and docketed on the 29th of September, 1857, each for the sum of f 1,228.86, and on the same day executions upon the said judgments were issued and delivered to the sheriff, and on the 2d day of October, 1857, the sheriff duly levied upon certain goods and chattels, the property of said James L. Far-*71well, one of the defendants in the executions respectively; after the levy and before any sale of said goods by the sheriff, the same were taken from the possession of the sheriff by the coroner of the same county under legal process at the suit of one William L. Yates; on the 28th of November, 1857, the said executions respectively were returned by the sheriff with return thereon endorsed, in one case, that he had “levied upon such personal property describing the same,” in the other case that he had “levied upon the interest of said James L. Farwell in certain goods and chattels therein described,” and, in both cases, that said goods and chattels were taken out of his possession by the coroner of said Ramsey county at the suit of William L. Yates.
Upon this state of facts the question is presented whether these proceedings were sufficient under the act approved Feb. 3d, 1862, to preserve the lien of the judgment as to the defendant Randall.
The act referred to provides, “When no execution shall have be^i issued and levied, or returned no property found, within five years from the time of the entry of judgment, the lien of the judgment shall be determined, and the property of tho judgment debtor discharged therefrom.” Sess. L. 1862, p. 82.
The executions issued upon' these judgments were issued against all the defendants. The levy upon the personal property of James L. Farwell having been rendered ineffectual by the removal of the property from the custody of the sheriff under legal process in a suit at law, the sheriff properly returned the execution to the court out of which it issued, with a statement of the facts embodied in his return.
The facts show, then, the issuance of an execution against all tho defendants; and a levy upon the individual property of one of tho defendants, which was rendered ineffectual by *72operation of law without irregularity or default in the sheriff or plaintiff in the execution. This we think is a compliance not only with the spirit but with the letter of the law of 1862. The lien of the judgment therefore was preserved.
It has already been determined by this court in the case of Davidson vs. Gaston decided at the present term that the provision of the Gen. Stat., ch. 66, sec. 254, limiting the lien of judgments tq ten years, does not apply to judgments entered and docketeÚ prior to the time it took effect, the lien of which had been preserved under the act of 1862, and that sec. 262 of ch. 66 of the Gen. Stat. requires only that execution upon a judgment should be issued within ten years which in this case was done.
The proceedings upon the judgment, under which the defendant claims title, are therefore regular and valid, and his title paramount to the claim of the plaintiff.
Judgment affirmed.