109 Mich. 139 | Mich. | 1896
Relator is a judgment creditor of William Y. Hamlin and Thomas N. Fordyce. This
“Immediately on receiving this execution, I caused to be mailed a notice, on a blank like the attached, to both William Y. Hamlin and Thomas N. Fordyce. In response to said notice, said Thomas N. Fordyce came into the sheriff’s office, and' said to me, in substance, as follows: That he had received the notice sent, and that neither Hamlin nor himself had any property out of which the execution could be made by levy. I requested him to point out any property he or Hamlin owned on which the execution could be levied, and he refused to do so, saying that he had none that anything could be realized out of. He also referred to the property he said he was supposed to own in Grosse Pointe, and told me that this property belonged to his wife, and had belonged to her for some time. Not being able to find any property, and on the strength of Fordyce’s statement, I returned the execution unsatisfied.”
This statement is denied by the affidavit of Mr. Fordyce.
The circuit judge set aside the return, and vacated the order appointing a receiver, and relator asks to have the two orders vacated.
The basis for a judgment creditor’s bill is a return of nulla bona, and in the equity suit the return is conclusive, and not open to attack. Albany City Bank v. Dorr, Walk. Ch. 317. But the defendants may move in the main case to set aside the return, and show its
Writ denied.