Richards v. Kirkpatrick

California Supreme Court
Richards v. Kirkpatrick, 53 Cal. 433 (Cal. 1879)
Rhodes

Richards v. Kirkpatrick

Opinion of the Court

By the Court, Rhodes, J.:

One of the defendants, Olcese, having obtained a judgment against Ivy, caused an execution to be issued, and the other defendant, as a Constable, levied the execution upon the personal property in controversy, as the property of Ivy, and is about to sell the same in satisfaction of the execution. Two days after the levy, the plaintiff commenced an action of claim and delivery against the Constable for the recovery of the property, and, as alleged in the complaint in this action, process was issued, by virtue of which the Sheriff took possession of the property. This action was instituted to restrain the sale of the property under the execution above mentioned, and was brought two days after the action of claim and delivery.

A party is not entitled to an injunction in a case where he has a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy at law. (Leach v. Day, *43527 Cal. 643; Rahm v. Minis, 40 Cal. 421.) No reason is given why the plaintiff could not obtain all the relief to which he is entitled in the pending action of claim and delivery. While the property is held by the Sheriff under the process in that action the Constable cannot sell it, and should the property be redelivered by the Sheriff to the Constable upon his execution of the statutory undertaking, that undertaking is presumptively sufficient protection to the plaintiff should he recover a judgment in that action.

Order reversed and cause remanded.

Reference

Full Case Name
W. FRED. RICHARDS v. D. S. KIRKPATRICK and ANDREW OLCESE
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3 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
When Injunction not Allowable.β€”A party is not entitled to an injunction in a case where he has a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy at law. Replevin as a Remedy.β€”An action of claim and delivery, instituted hy such party, in which the Sheriff has taken and is holding the possession of the property, is a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy as against a threatened sale of the property hy a Constable, from whose possession it was taken hy the Sheriff.