30 Ga. 664 | Ga. | 1860
1. It is not error in the Court to refuse an injunction of executions on such facts alleged in the bill as would not constitute a defense to the original suit on which the judgments were had, from which the executions issued.
2. When the sheriff alleges as an excuse for not making the money on executions placed in his hands for collection, that the defendants notified him of their intention to file a bill to enjoin the executions, and he thought the bill would be sanctioned: such showing is not a good excuse. The sheriff is in contempt, and the rule is properly made absolute against him.
Rule against Sheriff, from Sumter county. Decided by Judge Allen, at April Term, 1860.
John E. Sullivan, John Y. Price and Thomas C. Sullivan came forward, on the hearing, and asked leave of the Court to be made parties defendants to said rule, and insisted that said rule ought not to be made absolute for the reasons set forth in a bill in equity then in Court, and which bill was, in substance, as follows:
John C. Sullivan, Thomas C. Sullivan and John Y. Price, complainants, alleged that on the 5th day of February, 1858, said John E. made his promissory note for $1,698 06, payable to the order of said Price sixty days after date, at The Mérchants’ & Planters’ Bank of Savannah, which was endorsed by said Price for the accommodation of the maker. On maturity, said note was sued to judgment in the name of said bank. There was a stay of the fi. fa., on which said Thomas C. Sullivan became the security. The maker and endorser had been sued to judgment in separate actions, and at the April Term, 1860, a rule absolute was had against the said Dawson, sheriff, for failure to make the money due on the fi. fa. founded on the judgment against said John C. Sul
The prayer of the bill was for discovery, account, etc., and for an injunction to restrain the proceedings at law.
The motion to make defendants in said judgments parties to said rule, was refused by the Court.
The rule was made absolute and defendants excepted.
Hawkins, for plaintiffs in error.