107 Ga. 800 | Ga. | 1899
Castellaw &■ Colvin recovered a judgment at the February term, 1897, of a justice’s court, against S. S. Kendrick. On February 4, 1897, the justice issued an execution against Kendrick, which followed the judgment in all respects except that no person was named therein as plaintiff. Indorsed upon the execution was the number of the district, the names of the plaintiffs and defendant in the judgment, the amount of the principal and interest of the judgment, and a bill of costs. This execution was transferred by Castellaw & Colvin to J. E. Smith, and, after such transfer, was levied upon certain personal property to which a claim was interposed by J. B. Bell. When the case came on for trial in the superior court on appeal, Smith, the transferee, offered in evidence the execution above referred to. Upon objection being made to the same by the claimant, the transferee moved to amend it by inserting therein the name of Castellaw & Colvin as plaintiffs, and thus make the execution conform to the judgment. To this motion the claimant objected upon the ground that an execution issued by a justice of the peace could not be amended after it had reached the superior court on appeal. This objection was sustained by the court and the motion to amend overruled, and this ruling is assigned as error. Smith then made a motion to allow the justice who issued the execution to amend the same by inserting therein the names of the plaintiffs in the judgment; such justice being present in court with his docket upon which the judgment above referred to appeared, and having been allowed to testify that the, execution was issued on the judgment referred to, and that the name of the plaintiffs was omitted from the execution by a mistake on his part. To this motion the claimant also objected upon the ground that the execution was fatally defective and could not be amended in the superior court. The court sustained the objection and overruled the motion to amend; and this ruling is assigned as error. The court then, on motion of claimant, excluded the execution and dismissed the levy; and this ruling is also assigned as error.
The conclusion reached by us in the present case is sup
Judgment reversed.