109 Kan. 66 | Kan. | 1921
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This is the second time that this case has been in this court. (Larimore v. Parker, 101 Kan. 729, 168 Pac. 859.) When the action was here before, the trial court was directed to permit an amendment of a sheriff’s return on an order of attachment, to show the value and description of the property attached. After the cause was returned to the district court, that amendment was made by the sheriff who executed the writ, but whose term of office had. expired at the time the amendment was made. The defendant then filed a motion to suppress and to strike from the record and files the order of attachment and the return thereon for a number of reasons, the basis for all which was that there had been no levy or return of the order. In the former opinion it was stated that “the sheriff was about to seize some personal property, but refrained from doing so on account of the giving «of a bond signed by Ernest Pettit and C. H. Richardson.” (p. 729.) That bond was set out in 101 Kan. 731, and provided that the “property, or its appraised value in money shall
Nellie Parker by leave of court filed an interplea in which she claimed to be the owner of the property and to have been in the possession thereof at the time the attachment was levied and the bond given. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, and against the defendant and the interpleader who appeal.
“Where a defendant has been regularly served by summons, and there is a defect in the return of the officer respecting the service, the defect may, at any time, even long after judgment, in furtherance of justice, be cured by amendment, so as to make the return conform to the facts.” (Syl. See, also, Bank v. Sewing Society, 28 Kan. 423; Wilkins v. Tourtellott, 28 Kan. 825, 834; Manufacturing Co. v. Boyle, 46 Kan. 202, 205, 26 Pac. 408; Lipscomb v. Bank, 66 Kan. 243, 245, 71 Pac. 583.)
These cases do not show that the term of the officer who made the amendments had expired at the time they were made. In Alford v. Hoag, 8 Kan. App. 141, 54 Pac. 1105, it was held that a sheriff could amend his return to a summons after his term of office had expired; and in Rapp v. Kyle, 26 Kan. 89, this court said:
“Where amendment of a sheriff’s return is proper, it is not error to permit the amendment to be made by the officer who actually served the process, and this notwithstanding he was only a deputy, and no longer in office.” (Syl. ¶ 1. Sge, also, 6 C. J. 258.)
“The defendant and his bondsmen on the redelivery bond in attachment heretofore given to the sheriff and filed in this court providing for a redelivery of the property attached or its value, to the sheriff, within ten days from the rendition of this judgment deliver to the sheriff of this county for sale the attached property for which the undertaking was given, or pay such sum of money as may be due upon the undertaking not in excess of four hundred thirty-seven [dollars] and fifty cents ($437.50) or as much thereof as may be necessary to answer the judgment of the plaintiff heretofore rendered with interest and the costs of this action.”
The appellants say that it was error to render judgment against the bondsmen for the reason that they did not have any notice of the rendition of any judgment against them. If the judgment is void as to them, they can have it set aside on motion; if it is not void but erroneous, it must stand unless they appeal from it. That they have- not done. The appellants cannot appeal for the bondsmen nor complain of error in rendering judgment against them. (Craft v. Bent, 8 Kan. 328; DaLee v. Blackburn, 11 Kan. 190; Payne v. National Bank, 16 Kan. 147, 148.)
Another matter is presented but not urged, and that is that the court should have stricken certain property out of the amended return. The appellants say that the court practically eliminated all the items of which complaint is made and that perhaps “not so much injury was done.” The court eliminated all exempt property and included all other property named in the sheriff’s amended return, all of which was held by the defendant and sold by him on the day the attachment was levied.
No error has been made to .appear for which the judgment shnnld be reversed, and it is affirmed.