Court Opinion

ID: 7204585
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 17:13:34.550763+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:16:37.742441
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Martin, J.
delivered the opinion of the court. On the dissolution of the injunction, in this court, in the suit of Flower & al. vs. Livingston, vol. 2, 514, the piaintms took out an aliasft. ja. ? • i . . , , . . , t f° i woich was levied on “the right ot the detendant to the sum of $800, which may now be, or here-r ¶ alter may become due, by the state, &c., being ,. ., , , . . part ot a greater sum allowed him, by an act to c ., . , , ,. , ., tix the compensation to be allowed to the juris- ,, • , . , - -, , ,, consults, appointed to revise and amend the civii code, &c. Ine piaintms became the last bidders for this right, at the sheriff’s sale, and brought suit against the defendant, the treasurer of the state, who had refused to par.'
The answer denied the right of the courts tof justice to seize moneys to be paid by him to individuals, and averred that he had paid out, and accounted for, all moneys due by the state to Livingston. That the sum appropriated to his payment Was $4000,the payment of $800, of which was deferred by law, till after the completion bf the code of commerce. Leaving only $3200, now due, and of which $2000 had *74been paid to Workman, on Livingston's order. $379 92 were due to the state lor taxes, and an execution had issued to the sheriff, oí the parish of Orleans therefor, $dtí 12 for parish taxes, $344 5, were due for taxes on Livington’s land, in the parish of Washita, for the years 1820, 1821, and 1822, an execution had issued therefor; $429 91, had been paid (as the balance due) to the plaintiffs.
The parish judge allowed to the plaintiffs judgment for $46 12, and they appealed.
It seems the parish judge allowed all the items stated by the defendant,except the parish tax, which was not due to the state.
The sum paid to Workman is admitted to have been correctly paid.
The only difficulty is, as to the amount of Livingston’s state taxes, for which execution was in file hands of the sheriffs of the parishes of Orleans and Washita.
We think that the tresurerhad right to detain from the present plaintiffs, the purchasers of Livingston’s right, all which he might retain from the latter. It is clear, that if Livingston had called for the payment of the sum allowed him, the treasurer would have had. the right of retaining those arrearages of taxes, the collec-*75tioa of which,it is the treasurer’s duty to make, and the amount of taxes stated, is only that of those taxes tor which Livingston was reported as a delinquent, by the collectors, to the treasurer, in order that he might proceed to enforce payment.
Christy for the plaintiffs, Preston for the defendant.
it is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judgment of the district court be affirmed with costs.