66 P. 814 | Or. | 1901
delivered the opinion.
The plaintiffs, having an unsatisfied decree against H. B. Borthwick, caused several executions thereon to issue contemporaneously to the sheriffs of different counties subsequent to his death and prior to the appointment of an administrator of his estate, which, being decreed by the court below to have been improvidently issued, .were recalled and quashed, and the plaintiffs appeal.
The sole question presented is whether an execution may issue during such period, and depends entirely upon the proper construction or rendition of the statute pertaining to the enforcement of judgments in civil actions. There are three clauses bearing directly upon the matter in hand. The first provides that “the party in whose favor a judgment is given which requires the payment of money, the delivery of real or personal property, or either of them, may at any time after the entry thereof have a writ of execution issued for its enforcement as provided in this title;” the second, that, “if it be issued after the death of the judgment debtor, and be against real or personal property, it shall require the sheriff to satisfy the judgment, with interest, out of any property in the hands of the debtor’s personal representatives, heirs, devisees, legatees, tenants of real property, or trustees, as such;” and the last, that, “notwithstanding the death of a party after judgment, execution thereon against his property, or for the delivery of real or personal property, may be issued and executed
At common law execution could not issue except the judgment was revived through the instrumentality of a writ of scire facias, which brought in new parties, and gave them their day in court; but the use of such writ has long since been dispensed with [Bower v. Holladay, 18 Or. 491 (22 Pac. 553); Wallace v. Swinton, 64 N. Y. 188] and the statute gives the only remedy available. Now, section 274 gives the party in whose favor a judgment has been rendered an execution, and the first clause of section 281 provides that it may issue notwithstanding the death of the judgment debtor; but when and how is determined by the latter clau'se of the section. There is no statutory provision for the issuance of any execution, between the time of the decease of the judgment debtor and the granting of letters testamentary or of administration, and hence no such authority exists. The judgment creditor must
The question as to how the writ should be executed when issued is not a matter of present concern, as it is not presented by the record, and what we might say respecting it would be ohliier.
There will be an affirmance of the decree. ■ Affirmed.