127 N.Y.S. 623 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1911
The plaintiff, pursuant to a contract with Ludlow, appellant, and another, furnished material for the erection of houses, fled a lien thereon, brought action for personal judgment against Ludlow and such other person and to foreclose the lien, and on May 28, 1890, recovered judgment against Ludlow for $809.08, and for execution thereon and for sale of the premises, which judgment was entered June 2, 1890. An appeal, taken by one Ryan, did not involve the personal judgment against Ludlow, and the plaintiff was entitled to have such judgment docketed against her on the day of its entry. It was not docketed until December 28,1893. Within twenty years after the date of such docketing the plaintiff obtained an order for leave to issue execution on such judgment. This execution ordered is based on the personal judgment. Hence a judgment for deficiency is not in question.
The order should be affirmed, for the sufficient reason that twenty years had not expired prior thereto from the date of .docketing the judgment. Section 376 of the Code of Civil Procedure states that “ A final judgment or decree for a sum of money, or directing the payment of a sum of money, heretofore rendered in a surrogate’s court of the State, or heretofore or hereafter rendered, in a court of record within the United States, or elsewhere, or hereafter docketed pursuant to the provisions of section thirty hundred and seventeen of this act, is presumed to be paid and satisfied, after the expiration of twenty years from the time when the party recovering it was first entitled to a mandate to enforce it.” The judgment creditor is first entitled to execution at “ the moment when the judgment roll is filed and the judgment is docketed ” (Aultman & Taylor Co. v. Syrne, 163 N. Y. 54, 61; De Agreda v. Mantel, 1 Abb. Pr. 130, 135 ; Kupfer v. Frank, 30 Hun, 74; Dunham v. Reilly, 110 N. Y. 371), unless there is a stay of execution. (Harris v. Elliott, 163 N. Y. 269, 274.) Section 1365 provides that “ an execution against property can be issued only to a county, in the clerk’s office of which the judgment is docketed.” In the opinion in Dunham v. ReiUy (supra) it is said: “ The power
Jenks, P. J., Hirschberg, Carr and Rich, JJ., concurred.
Order affirmed, with ten dollars costs and disbursements.