46 Fla. 498 | Fla. | 1903
On March 15, 1901, appellants filed their bill against appellee and the sheriff of Columbia county alleging the recovery of a judgment in their favor against Mullen in the Circuit Court of that county; that execution issued thereon and was levied upon certain personal property
The court erred in dissolving the injunction. Under section 2007, Revised Statutes, which provides that “the Circuit Court shall have equity jurisdiction upon bill filed by a creditor or other person interested in enforcing any unsatisfied judgment or decree,' to determine whether any
Section 2003, Revised Statutes, requires the party, when a levy is made upon his personal property and he desires to have the officer set apart his exemption, to point out the whole of his personal property to the officer, and the officer is required to make an inventory of such property which the party is required to verify by affidavit. The officer is then required to summons appraisers, and after the appraisement the party is entitled to select from the inventory $1,000 worth of the property as exempt, and in case he fails to do so, the officer selects for him. If the party fails to point out the whole of his personal property or to include a portion thereof in his inventory, and conceals same as is alleged in this bill, which the motion to dissolve does not den)', then, under section 2007, the jurisdiction of a court of equity may be invoked to ascertain the property omitted and to determine what property shall be set apart as exempt, and pending the proceeding it is entirely proper to enjoin the sheriff from setting apart as exempt any personal property which has been levied upon. See Florida Loan & Trust Co. v. Crabb, 45 Fla. 306, 33 South. Rep. 523.
The court is not called upon to express an opinion whether, if the property levied upon is found to be exempt, the appellant Mullen can be required to pay the expense of caring for same which the decree appealed from undertook to do.