34 Mich. 437 | Mich. | 1876
This is controversy over some corn to which each party claims title under one White; Adams by purchase at a sale on execution, and Winfield by an earlier purchase of the lease of the premises on which the corn had been raised.
I. Adams, who was plaintiff in the .court below, to make out his title, called as a witness the constable who made the sale. It appeared from the constable’s evidence that he levied on the corn August 22, 1873, as a growing crop;
The statute forbids personalty to be sold on execution, “unless the same be present and within the view of those attending such sale.” — Oomp. L., § 6106. Under this statute the sale of the third parcel could not be supported. Whether the sale of the others could be, we can properly express no opinion at this time. The testimony of the constable would perhaps enable it to be supported within the principle of Perkins v. Spaulding, 2 Mich., 157; though the distance of the officer from the property he was selling was very much greater in this case than in the one referred to. But the evidence which would affect this point is conflicting.
It was insisted for the defendant in error1, that the sale could not be defeated' by parol evidence showing that the officer’s proceedings were not in compliance with the statute, as this would be in contradiction to his return. This point is covered by the decision in Nall v. Granger, 8 Mich., 450, in which it was decided that one -who claimed by a title originating prior to the officer’s levy was not precluded by his return from showing the real facts.
II. Winfield gave evidence tending to show that she took an assignment from White of his lease, to secure an indebtedness from him to her, a part of which was for money loaned to him many years before, and a part for wages she had earned in his service. Adams attacked the assignment as being fraudulent as against creditors, and Winfield offered to show that the money loaned to White was money which
Some other errors are relied upon, but the record is not sufficiently certain in its statement of the facts to justify our passing upon them. The judgment must be reversed, with costs, and a new trial ordered.