3 Kan. App. 602 | Kan. Ct. App. | 1896
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Christian Mayer brought an action in the district court of Barber county, Kansas, against
The premises sold under the mortgage were purchased at said sale by Albert Bromer. In December, 1893, an execution was issued against the property of Sparks and Sparks for this deficiency judgment, which execution was returned for want of time in which to sell, and in February, 1894, an alias execution was issued for the same purpose. While this execution was outstanding, and in March, 1894, John Sparks and Ratliff Sparks filed a motion in the district court of Barber county asking for an order for the recalling of such execution, assigning various grounds therefor, and also asking that the judgment of Christian Mayer against John Sparks and Ratliff Sparks be adjudged fully satisfied. Upon the hearing of said motion the court ordered the satisfaction of 'said judgment, and from this order Christian Mayer brings the question here for review.
The first error complained of is that the court had no right to order a satisfaction of the judgment upon motion in this case. We consider this position as well taken. The record discloses that some kind of an assignment of this judgment had been made to Cook & Palmer, and also an assignment by Cook &
It is true that, as between a judgment debtor and creditor, the court will entertain a motion to satisfy a judgment where the facts are not controverted and the proceedings are of record in the court hearing the motion. But in this case Mayer, who was interested, had no notice of the motion, and no one appeared by authority for him. Atkinson, who, the evidence disclosed, had some kind of an assignment of the judgment, had no notice of the motion, and had not appeared in any manner. Under such circumstances, where parties who were not interested in the original cause of action claim an interest in the judgment, the court ought not to hear and determine a motion for the satisfaction of said judgment in the absence of the interested parties, and without notice to them. The only adequate and proper remedy in such a case is by a separate action where all parties claiming an interest are brought before the court. (Freeman, Judg. [4th ed.] §480 ; McCutcheon v. Allen, 96 Pa. St. 319.)
The second point raised by the plaintiff in error is that the court erred in admitting evidence of the alleged assignment of the judgment from Christian Mayer to Cook & Palmer. It appears that, after the alias execution in the ca’se of Mayer against Byroad, ■Sparks, et al., was issued, the firm of Cook & Palmer entered into certain negotiations with T. A. Noftzger,
An attorney has no power, by virtue of his general employment, to assign a judgment belonging to his principal. In this case there is but one conclusion to be drawn from the evidence, and that is, that Noftzger never received any special authority from Mayer to assign said judgment. This being the case, the assignment made by Noftzger had no validity and was improperly received in evidence. (Freeman, Judg. § 430; Jones v. Inness, 32 Kan. 177.)
We are clearly of the opinion that, for each and all of the reasons above set forth, the district court committed error in ordering the recall of the execution and the satisfaction of the judgment in question.
The judgment is reversed, and this cause remanded, with instructions to the district court of Barber county to deny the motion.