Court Opinion

ID: 7188396
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 16:54:34.749316+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:07.775623
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Taliaferro, J.
The defendants having issued a writ of fieri facias upon a judgment obtained by them in the year, 1861, against the plaintiff and J. M. Cheaver, the sheriff seized and advertised for sale as property of the plaintiff, a tract of land, and gave notice to him of the seizure and also notice to appear on a given day and appoint an appraiser. The plaintiff sued out a writ of injunction, on the ground that he had applied in February, 1868, for the benefit of the bankrupt law, and had obtained his discharge on the fifth of May following, of • which he held a certificate in due form. He further averred that he surrendered the land seized to the assignee in bankruptcy, and leased the same from him- for the year, 1869, and had growing upon it at the time of the seizure in June of that year, a crop of cotton, corn and other things worth two thousand dollars. He prayed judgment enjoining the defendants from selling the crop and from collecting any part of the judgment from him, and also lor damages against the sheriff and defendants in solido for five hundred dollars. The defendants answered by general denial, and prayed for dissolution of the-injunction with twenty per cent, damages and for $200 counsel fees, etc. The plaintiff had judgment in his favor perpetuating the injunction, but reserving to the defendants the right to proceed by hypothecary action, if any mortgage they have. From this judgment the-*442defendants appealed. We see no error in the judgment. The writ oí fieri facias contains the following clause : “In the name of the State of Louisiana wo command you that by seizure and sale for cash witli•out benefit of appraisement, of the property real and personal, rights and credits of A. P. Murphy, in the manner prescribed by law, you ■cause to be made the sum of two thousand dollars.”
We concur in opinion with the judge a quo that this proceeding by fieri facias, on the part of the defendants, is an attempt to enforce personally a judgment extinguished by the discharge in bankruptcy. The pleadings do not require a consideration of the point insisted on in argument by defendants that a discharge in bankruptcy does not extinguish mortgages either judicial or conventional, nor whether the authorities, citod by their counsel, sustain their position. We. will only remark that the views expressed in the leading case referred to were predicated upon the mortgage rights shown to be possessed by creditors of the bankrupt, and that they recognized in the creditors no other than hypothecary rights. The defendants in this case have not shown that they have a mortgage of any kind against the land seized under their execution, nor do they make any distinct averment that they have. We regard the proceedings as irregular and illegal.
It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed that the judgment of ■the district court be affirmed with costs.