Court Opinion

ID: 8057036
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 04:33:38.362693+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:37:53.123677
License: Public Domain

By the Court.
This was an attachment sued out before a* Justice of the Peace, by the defendant irs certiorari, against the-plaintiff' in certiorari, as a non resident debtor. A number of errors have been assigned. It will be sufficient to notice a part: of them: and
1st, ft does not appear by the transeript, that the Justice, ora the return of the writ, appointed a day, as is required by theslatute, (Elmer's Dig. 29, pl. 45.) for the hearing of the cause,.
The Justice after stating in his docket, that the constable had returned the writ, served, &c., says, that on the 12th Feb. 1839, the plaintiff appeared and filed his demand, and that, being “ satisfied with the putting up of the advertisements,” he proceeded to give judgment. This is insufficient; It ought to appear by the record, when the process was returned; and, that the Justice then appointed a day, not less than twenty days from the issuing of the writ, for the hearing of the cause; and, that on that day, the plaintiff proved to his satisfaction, that the plaintiff had advertised the attachment in the manner prescribed by the statute.
2d, That the judgment is uncertain and unlawful.
The constable had attached a debt or sum of money in the hands of sheriff Ñafie, due to the defendant in attachment. The Justice gave judgment as follows; “I give judgment in favor of the plaintiff, and against the moneys in the hands of Abrm. G. Ñafie, sheriff, due Aaron Conover, defendant in attachment, for thirty-eight dollars, debt &c.” This was all wrong — the Justice should have given judgment for the plaintiff' against the defendant, for such sum, as upon the evidence in the cause, he found due from the defendant to the plaintiff, leaving the plaintiff to pursue his lawful remedy against the sheriff, who was garnishee.
For these reasons, the judgment and proceedings must be reversed and set aside.

Judgment and proceedings reversed, and set aside.