179 P. 655 | Utah | 1919
Plaintiffs brought suit in the district court of Sevier county against Marie S. Clayton and W. S. Greenwood, the sheriff of that county, to enjoin an execution sale by the sheriff of a soda fountain and front and back bars which plaintiffs had in their possession and upon which they had a duly recorded chattel mortgage for $468.50 executed by Archer Lynn Clayton, October 17, 1917, and which amount was due and unpaid.
On August 11, 1917, the district court of Sevier county, in an action wherein said Marie S. Clayton was plaintiff and said Archer Lynn Clayton was defendant, rendered and entered 'an - interlocutory decree of divorce. By the decree Archer Lynn Clayton was required to pay his wife, Marie S. S. Clayton, $15 per month alimony, and the decree purported to give her a fh’st lien upon the soda fountain and all other property of said Archer Lynn Clayton except a certain automobile. The decree also provided that it be recorded in the office of the recorder of Sevier county, but that was not done. It was stipulated that the personal property in question was “reasonably serviceable,” and was used in Clayton’s business of “making candy and making and mixing soft drinks and confectionery and selling the same” till January, 1918, when he left Sevier county and abandoned the property, and that there Avas due from him to his divorced wife the sum of $250 by reason of the judgment on which execution had been issued and placed in the hands of the sheriff for levy on the personal property above mentioned. The district court granted plaintiffs a judgment enjoining the defendants from interfering with plaintiffs in enforcing and foreclosing their chattel mortgage. From that judgment defendants have appealed.
The questions involved are whether Marie S. Clayton, one
Judgment liens are wholly statutory. Under the laws of this state a judgment of a district court is a lien upon the real estate of the debtor, and not upon his personal
Appellants’ second contention is that as the relation of husband and wife existed1 between appellant Marie S. Clayton and the mortgagor at the time the latter executed
Judgment affirmed, with costs.