Benton v. Benson
Benton v. Benson
Opinion of the Court
delivering the opinion.
An attachment was sued out returnable to the Superior Court of Carroll county at the instance of the plaintiffs, J. C. & J. W. Benson, against one Alexander R. Morrison, which was levied on a printing press, types and fixtures. The property, pending the attachment, was claimed by one Joseph Benton, and that claim was subsequently dismissed by the Court for irregularity. A judgment was rendered on the attachment debt, from which an execution issued against the property attached that was levied on said property. The claimant again interposed his affidavit claiming the property, and gave his claim bond payable to the sheriff, etc. When this claim cause came before the Superior Court of Carroll county for trial, at the October Term, 1860, of that Court, the plaintiff in attachment moved to dismiss the claim on two grounds. 1st. That a claim for property levied on by attachment, under the Attachment Act of 1856, could only be made as required by that act, that is, before judgment on the attachment debt and not after, and that as such a claim had been interposed and dismissed, it was a bar to any claim after judgment. 2d. That the claim bond was made payable to the sheriff, instead of to the plaintiff in in attachment. The Court sustained the motion on both of the grounds, and dismissed the claim, and to that judgment the claimant excepted. Was that judgment of the Court below dismissing the claims on these grounds, or either of either of them, right ? We hold that it was not.
1. Under the Attachment Act of 1856, claims for property levied on by attachment may be made pending the attachment, and in that case the claim bond must be made, payable to the plaintiff in attachment. Pam. Acts, 1856, pp. 33 and
2. And we hold further, under this act, that when the claim for property attached is not interposed until after judgment rendered, that the claim bond should be made payable to the sheriff, as in other claim cases. Cobb, 533.
Let the judgment be reversed.
Reference
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- Joseph Benton, in error v. J. C. and J. M. Benson, in error
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