26 Neb. 148 | Neb. | 1889
In March, 1887, the plaintiff commenced an action by attachment against the defendant to recover the sum of $520.90. The defendant thereupon filed a motion, supported by affidavits, to discharge the attachment. Counter affidavits were filed, and on the hearing the attachment was dissolved. To this the plaintiff excepted, but did not' ask the court to fix the number of days in which to file an undertaking and petition in error for a review in this court of the ruling complained of, and ho such undertaking has been given. The defendant contends that, by reason of the failure to comply with the statute in this respect, it deprives the plaintiff of the right of such review.
This section applies alone to the retention of the lien of the attachment; that is, if the attaching creditor desires to retain his attachment lien upon the property attached until the ruling on the motion to discharge can be reviewed in the appellate court, he must, within such time as the court shall fix, not exceeding twenty days, give an undertaking to the adverse party, with approved sureties, in double the appraised value of the property, conditioned, etc. If the undertaking is not given, the property will be released absolutely from the lien of the attachment, but such failure goes no further than that.
Section 581 of the code declares that: “An order affecting a substantial right in an action, when such order in effect determines the action and prevents a judgment, and an order affecting a substantial right made in a special proceeding, or upon a summary application in an action after judgment, is a final order which may be vacated, modified or reversed, as provided in this title.”
Section 582 provides that: “A judgment rendered or final
A ruling of the district court discharging an attachment is a final order and is subject to review. (Turpin v. Coates, 12 Neb. 321.) In the case cited it is said that: “The object of an attachment is to obtain sufficient property or credits of the debtor to satisfy the judgment which may be recovered. This right, under certain conditions the statute gives. If a court improperly deprives a party of the benefit of this proceeding, is he not thereby deprived of a substantial right? A special proceeding may be said to include every special statutory remedy which is not in itself an action. We have no doubt that an order discharging garnishees, is an order affecting a substantial right, made in a special proceeding. Such an order in many eases would entirely defeat the collection of a debt. Neither is it necessary to wait until final judgment before such order can be reviewed. No judgment can be rendered against the garnishees until after final judgment against the debtor; but if the attachment is not dissolved, the creditor has a right to the security obtained by the proceedings in garnishment for the satisfaction of any judgment he may obtain.”
The discharge of the attachment whereby the plaintiff was deprived of his lien upon the property in question, was a final order, and subject to review in this court, although no undertaking was given. The plaintiff has the right to protect itself, if it can, from liability for costs or damages by reason of the attachment proceedings, and therefore may have the evidence and points of law arising in the case reviewed in the supreme court. This objection, therefore, is of no avail.
The testimony fails to show any cause for an attachment. The defendant was engaged in the grocery business at Hastings. The plaintiff claims that at the time he commenced business with it, he represented that Sloan, Johnson & Co.,
'Judgment affirmed.