175 A.D. 852 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1916
This action was brought by plaintiff against the defendant, her husband, for a separation on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, abandonment and non-support. An order having been made requiring defendant to pay to plaintiff for her support and that of her two children theosum of fifteen dollars weekly, and defendant having failed to comply therewith although served with -a certified copy thereof, he was committed to the county jail in the county of New York, and remained therein until discharged according to law. On March 15, 1916, judgment was entered in favor of plaintiff against defendant in the sum of $346, representing alimony accumulated to that date. On March 23,1916, execution thereon was returned unsatisfied by the sheriff of the county of New York. On April 24, 1916, plaintiff obtained an order to show cause “ why an order should not be made sequestrating the property of the defendant now in the possession of the Board of Education of the City of New York.” This order to show cause was based on an affidavit of plaintiff wherein, among other things, she alleges: “ That the defendant has no property, real or personal, of which the deponent has any knowledge, and that he is engaged in literary work and earns various sums of money from time to time, averaging, as deponent is informed and believes, from Sixty
The answering affidavit of the defendant, among other things, avers that “ the sum of $160 referred to in the moving papers, which plaintiff seeks to sequestrate, is due to me from the Board of Education of the City of New York for wages as lecturer.”
The order of sequestration herein was improperly granted. Concededly, defendant had no property, real or personal. The amount due him by the board of education represented, if not wages or salary, certainly earnings. The plaintiff could not change the character of this fund by delaying or preventing its payment over to defendant. The case comes directly within the scope of section 1391 of the Code of Civil Procedure, providing that “ Where a judgment has been recovered and where an execution issued upon said judgment has been returned wholly or partly unsatisfied, and where any wages, debts, earnings, salary, income from trust funds or profits are due and
The order appealed from is reversed, but without costs, and the motion to sequestrate defendant’s property denied. This is without prejudice to plaintiff’s right to move for relief under section 1391 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Clarke, P. J., Page and Davis, JJ., concurred; Laughlin, J., dissented.
Order reversed and motion denied, without costs.