8 Neb. 432 | Neb. | 1879
This is an action to quiet title. The petition alleges that in the year 1869, Allen M. Ghost, as the agent of
The rule is well settled in this court that the lien of a judgment attaches only to the actual interest which
As the lien of a judgment creates no interest in the land until after a sale and conveyance thereof, the purchaser is chargeable with any notice, either actual or constructive, which he may have received prior to the sale of any outstanding title.
In the case at bar, the deed of the plaintiff was recorded two days before the sale took place, and was notice to the defendant of the plaintiff’s title. The defendants insist that as the plaintiff’s deed was not recorded at the time of the levy, the judgment creditor acquired a specific lien upon the property by the levy; "that the defendants’ rights are acquired under the right of Eish, the judgment creditor, and whatever right he had passed to the purchaser. Upon whose property was this levy made? It will not be contended that it belonged to Ghost. He had no interest in it whatever. Upon what principle, then, when the purchaser has notice, can you take the property of a person not liable for the payment of a debt and apply it in satisfaction thereof? Such a rule, if adopted, would violate every principle of justice, and make the material inquiry upon levying an "execution, not the ownership of the property, but the condition of the record. The object of the registry law is to protect purchasers without notice, and parties acquiring specific liens for a valuable consideration, and not to furnish the means by which owners of real estate may be robbed of their property.
Under section 500 of the code of civil procedure, a sheriff’s deed vests in the purchaser the same estate as •was vested in the judgment debtor at or after the time the lands became liable to the satisfaction' of the judg
Reversed and remanded.