Court Opinion

ID: 9809426
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:12:56.33434+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:29:18.749869
License: Public Domain

Davis, J.,
(dissenting). The plaintiff seeks in this action to recover the penalty of $200 of the defendant, who is the Sheriff of Davidson County, “ for selling real property ” contrary to ' § 456 and § 457 of The Code’’ This is the allegation in his complaint, and the only allegation as the record shows.
The Sheriff did not sell any real property, he did not advertise, or propose, or attempt, to sell any real property. In all that the Sheriff did, the evidence does not disclose the first element of a sale, or of an attempt to sell “real property,” so he can not be liable for that.
*280If the property sold was personal property then the plaintiff can not recover, for there is no allegation of that, there is no complaint of that. That must be advertised under § 460 of The Code.
The plaintiff can not recover the penalty for the sale of real property contrary to §§ 456 and 457 as alleged because there was no such sale made or attempted. He can not recover the penalty for the sale of personal property under § 460, because there is no such allegation or complaint. So quacunque via he must I think fail in this action, and a new trial, it seems to me can only result as the last.
The action for the penalty should be in the name of the State, The Code, §1213. Duncan v. Philpot, 64 N. C., 479.
I do not think the plaintiff’s action, as it appears in the record, is supported either by merit or law.