70 N.C. 558 | N.C. | 1874
The sheriff of Ashe county asks the direction of the Court as to the application of money in his hands, arising from the sale of land under three executions, one in favor of Jacob Roten, another in favor of John Shatley, and a third in favor of D. B. Dougherty. The judgments, on which the three executions issued, and also a judgment in favor of one Long, had been regularly docketed in the Superior Court of Ashe county ; the judgments in favor of Roten and Shatley before, and that in favor of Dougherty after the docketing of the judgment in favor of Long.
No execution had issued on the judgment in favor of Long. The land did not bring enough to pay all the judgments.
The question presented for decision is not an open one.
We have held in Perry v. Morris, 65 N. C. Rep. 221, that the lien on the land of the defendant, acquired by a docketed judgment, shall not be lost in favor of a judgment subsequently docketed, unless the plaintiff in the latter take out ex
The fund should be applied to the satisfaction of the judgments in the order, in point of time, in which they are entered on the docket.
Let this be certified.
Retí CueiaM. Judgernent accordingly.