Court Opinion

ID: 9833388
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:40:31.603198+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:02.254981
License: Public Domain

On Appellant’s Motion for a Rehearing.
Appellant very strenuously urges that this court erred in holding that the court below did not err in foreclosing appellee’s attach•ment lien against the lands levied upon, insisting that appellant having replevied the land, her replevy bond took the place of the land, and judgment therefore should have been on the bond for the amount of the money judgment in favor of appellees. Following are all of the provisions of our attachment statute, title 13, R. O. S. 1925, pretermitted in original opinion, that deal with or in any manner relate to the replevy of property seized by writ of attachment, and by which this question must be determined, viz.:
“Art. 291. Any person other than the defendant may claim the personal property so levied on, or any part thereof, upon making the affidavit and giving bond required by the provisions of the title relating to the trial of the right of property.
“Art. 292. At any time before judgment, should the property not have been previously claimed or sold, the defendant may replevy the same, or any part thereof, by giving bond * ⅜ ⅜ conditioned that should the defendant be condemned in the action, he shall satisfy the judgment which may be rendered therein, or shall pay the estimated value of the property with lawful interest thereon from the date of the bond.
“Art. 293. Whenever personal property ⅜ * ⅜ ghajq (have) not have been claimed or replevied, the judge, or justice of the peace, out of whose court the writ was issued, may, *771either in term time or in vacation, order the same to be sold. * * * ”
“Art. 295. Sneh sale shall be conducted in the same manner as sales of personal property under execution. * * * ”
“Art. 300. The execution of the writ of attachment upon any property of the defendant subject thereto ⅜ s * shall create a lien from the date of such levy on the real estate levied on and on such personal property as remains in the hands of the attaching officer, and on the proceeds of such personal property as may have been sold.”
From said provisions it is to be gathered: (a) That only a defendant in attachment proceedings may replevy; (b) that only personal property attached may be claimed and bond given to try the right of property; (c) that only personal property may be ordered sold before final judgment; (d) that the provisions of article 292, supra, viz., “At any time before judgment, should the property not have been previously claimed or sold, the defendant may replevy the same, or any part thereof,” has reference only to personal property, as real estate cannot be claimed or sold under said title 13; (e) that regardless of the execution of a replevy bond for land levied upon by a writ of attachment (same not being authorized by said title), on the plaintiff recovering in the suit the attachment lien' shall be foreclosed and the real estate ordered ■ sold to satisfy the judgment; (f) that the provision of article 3.02, supra, only authorizes a judgment against the defendant and his sureties on his replevy bond when personal property has been replevied. ■
This limitation to the right of replevy is due, no doubt, to the fact that article 3793, R. S. 1925, referred to by article 289, supra, does not authorize an officer, in levying a writ of attachment upon real estate, to take possession thereof as in the case of a levy upon personal property; the real estate so levied upon being left in the possession of the defendant, against whom the writ is levied.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is denied.