41 So. 781 | Ala. | 1906
This is an attachment suit commenced by R. M. Jones, the appellant, on the 3rd day of September, 1904, against Z. M. C. Baxter, the appellee.
The court sustained the demurrer to the second and third grounds of the motion, and overruled it as to the first ground.
The plaintiff filed a plea to the said motion, fully set out on page 5 of the record. The defendant moved to strike said plea, which motion was granted.
On the trial of the motion to vacate and discharge the levy, the facts as stated above in the beginning of this opinion, were shown without conflict, and the court granted the motion, and entered judgment discharging and dismissing the levy made under the attachment.
It thus appears, that the single question is presented,— whether the court erred in discharging said levy, and that depends upon whether the sheriff of Geneva county had any right or authority' to go out of his own county' into Houston county and levy the attachment in his hands on property situated wholly in the latter county.
It is stated in Freeman on Executions, § 104, that “The execution may be regular, and in all respects valid when
Mr. Herman, in discussing AA-hat levies are void, says: “A levy made on property that is not subject to levy on execution is Amid,” and gives instances of such, the last one of which is, “A levy upon property outside of the district or county of the officer holding the execution.”' — Herman on Execution, § 168; Street v. McClerkin, 77 Ala. 580; Stephenson v. Wright, 111 Ala. 586, 20 South. 622. The court committed no error in discharging and dismissing said levy.
We are cited to the case of Peebles v. Weir, 60 Ala. 413, as opposed to the rulings of this court. That case holds, that the execution of a replevy bond by the defendant, in an attachment case, is sufficient to sustain a judgment against him by default. That decision,is justified, on the grounds as therein stated, that by the. execution of the bond, the. defendant becomes a party to the suit, as do his sureties, so far that an execution may issue against them, if the plaintiff is unsuccessful in the suit, and fails to return the property to the custody of the proper officer. But, the execution of a forthcoming bond by a defendant to gain the possession of his property taken from him under a void levy, cannot have the effect of A'aliclating the levy, and would not deprive the defendant of making his motion to get rid of the Amici Ioaw, — otherwise, he Avould
The ruling of the court below is approved.
Affirmed.