Georgia Court of Appeals, 1940

Smith v. Beavers

Smith v. Beavers
Georgia Court of Appeals · Decided April 18, 1940 · Felton, Stephens, Sutton
8 S.E.2d 719; 62 Ga. App. 535; 1940 Ga. App. LEXIS 335 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Smith v. Beavers

Opinion of the Court

Felton, J.

Where personal property is levied on under a purchase-money attachment, the superior court of the county in which the attachment is foreclosed is without authority to order the property sold after advertisement for ten days in three public places in the county, in the exercise of its legal, as distinguished from its equity powers, in response to a petition by the plaintiff in attachment alleging that another person was in possession of and operating the property levied on (sawmill), that the property was uninsured and exposed to fire hazard, and that there would be an expense attending the keeping of it. Citation of authority is unnecessary in view of the admission in the brief of counsel for defendant in error as follows: β€œThe defendant in error does not claim that the property is of a perishable nature or that it could be sold under the statutory rules governing an application for short order,” the reason being that the evidence did not authorize such a sale. The transfer of this case to this court by the Supreme Court (Smith v. Beavers, 189 Ga. 209, 5 S. E. 2d, 640), is conclusive of the proposition that the order for the sale was not an exercise of an equity power of the court. The court erred in ordering the sale of the property.

Judgment reversed.

Stephens, P. J., and Sutton, J., concur.

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