86 N.J. Eq. 314 | New York Court of Chancery | 1916
The bill herein has been filed for the purpose of procuring an injunction restraining a sale of complainant’s land by the sheriff of Atlantic county under a writ of execution issued out of the Atlantic county circuit court. The bill avers that the notices of sale describe the land to be sold as follows: “All real estate owned by Margate Company, in the city of Margate, or elsewhere in the county of Atlantic, in the State of New Jersey, and also any interest of any kind or character which the said Margate Company has in lands 'and real estate in Margate City or elsewhere in Atlantic county, New Jersey.” The bill avers that this is an insufficient description to identify the land to be sold or to sufficiently apprise prospective purchasers of the land intended to be sold and is for that reason operative to cause irreparable injury to complainant.
The only ground of relief presented by the bill is inadequacy of description. Ho fraud or inequitable conduct is alleged. The injury which may result from a sale, the notice of which is in the language above quoted, is made the sole ground for this -court to interfere with or prevent a judicial sale under a process of execution issued out of a court of law.
I am unable to find justification for such interference on the part of this court. The court of law out of which the process of execution has issued possesses a summary jurisdiction to control its own process; that jurisdiction is of an equitable nature for the purpose of preventing its own judgments and processes from being the me'ans of working injustice, and that jurisdiction of the law court exists until the process has been finally executed. After the process has been finally executed, and the law court has thereby become unable to grant the relief sought, this court may, in proper circumstances, afford a remedy; but
I will advise an order discharging the order to show cause.
