11 Neb. 341 | Neb. | 1881
This is an action in the nature of a creditor’s bill. The petition alleges in substance that on the 1st day of February, 1877, Smith and Crittenden, the defendants in error, commenced an action against the plaintiff in the district court of Butler county to recover the sum of $1733.31 and costs; that on the 3d day of that, month an order of attachment was duly issued in said cause and levied upon the south half of the south-east quarter of sec. 27, township 16, range 1, as the property of said Wright; that on the 3d day of December, 1878, the plaintiffs in said action recovered a judgment against
An answer and reply were filed, to which it is unnecessary to refer. On the trial of the cause, judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs, and subjecting the'land to the payment of the debt. The defendant brings the cause into this court by petition in error.
There is no bill of exceptions in the case, and the
Section 19 of the code provides that “ an action shall be deemed commenced within the meaning of this title, as to the.defendant, at the date of the summons which is served upon him,” etc.
Section 86 provides that “when summons is served or publication made, the action is pending so as to charge third persons with notice of its pendency, and while so pending, no interest can be acquired by third persons in the subject matter thereof as against the plaintiff’s title.”
Section 500 provides that “the (sheriff’s) deed shall be sufficient evidence of the.regularity of such sale, and the proceedings therein until the contrary be proved, and shall vest in the purchaser as good and as perfect an estate in the premises therein mentioned as was vested in the party at or after the time when such lands and tenements became liable to the satisfaction of the judgment,” etc.
Now when did the lands in question become liable to the satisfaction of the judgment? Drake, in his work on Attachments, section 221, says: “ When questions arise as to the title of property claimed through an attachment, and the judgment and execution following it, the rights so acquired look back for their inception, not to the judgment but to the attachment.” Tyrell v. Rountree, 7 Peters, 464. Stephen v. Thayer, 2 Bay, 272. Bank v. Morris Land and Banking Co., 6 Hill, 362. Martin v. Dryden, 1 Gilman, 187. Redus v. Wofford, 4 S. & M., 579. Brown v. Williams, 1 Me., 403. Tappan v. Harrison, 2 Humph, 172. Oldham v. Scuvener, 3 B. Mon., 579. Lackey v. Siebert, 23
Tbe deed and mortgage in question having been made while the action was pending, and after the levy of the attachment therein upon the land in controversy, do not in any manner create a cloud upon or affect the title of the plaintiffs in execution to the lands levied upon under the attachment.
The petition therefore fails to state a cause of action, and as it appears that it cannot be amended, the judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause dismissed.
Judgment accordingly.