7 Johns. 426 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1811
delivered the opinion of the court. The execution, against which the defendant Staats prays to be relieved, ought to be considered as satisfied and discharged. The deputy sheriff who had the execution, instead of executing it according to law, discharged it himself out of his own money, on taking a note drawn by one defendant, and endorsed by the other, payable at the bank of Hudson in 55 days. This he did as early as November, 1808, and gáve the defendants under his own hand an acknowledgment of having received the full amount of the execution. The note not being "paid, and having neglected to fix the endorsor by the
It was once moved as a question by Lord Hobart, in Speake v. Richards, (Hob. 206.) whether, if the sheriff on execution pay the plaintiff with his own money, he might afterwards levy the money of the defendant. But this point, if not essentially involved in the decision in Noy, seems to be embraced by the decision in the K. B. jn Ward v. Hauchel, where it was agreed by the court, that if the sheriff takes a bond from the party, on fi. fa., it was pleadable in bar of a new execution, and the court referred to a case in which such a plea had been adjudged good. (1 Keb. 551.) This authority clearly applies to the present case. The sheriff must look to his note; and it would be oppressive to allow him to keep an execution alive over the party, after having formally paid it himself, arid accepted of a note as his 'own security.
I am happy, therefore, that Van Slyck, the deputy sheriff, will be driven to seek his remedy upon the note, when the legality of this increase of the original debt, will be open to further investigation.
The court are of opinion that this motion to set aside , the execution be granted, with costs, to be paid by Henry. Van Slyck the deputy sheriff.
Motion granted.