Graves v. Spinney
Graves v. Spinney
Opinion of the Court
The appellee Albert DeFries, being the owner of a storeroom, fixtures and certain personal property used in said building, leased the same to Vernon Cyphers. Cyphers failed to pay the rent, and DeFries filed his complaint before a justice of the peace for the possession of the property described in the lease.
Pending that action and before trial, the appellants, Milton E. Graves and Albert D. Peck, on their application alleging that they had purchased the store fixtures and personal property from Cyphers, were made
On October 10, 1916, DeFries caused an execution to be issued requiring the defendant Spinney, as sheriff, to collect the said judgment from the defendants Peck and Graves.
The complaint in the instant case is by Peck and Graves against the appellee Spinney, as sheriff, and the appellee DeFries to restrain the levying of said execution upon the property of appellants. The issues, being closed, the cause was tried by the court and resulted in a judgment against the appellants.
Appellants conténd that the decision of the court is not sustained by sufficient evidence. Their first contention is that the execution does not comply with the provisions of §724 Burns 1914, §682 R. S. 1881. There is no merit in this contention as the execution does not appear to have been introduced in evidence, and appellants have wholly failed to call our' attention .to any defect in its form.
The evidence discloses that there were forty-one separate items or articles of fixtures and personal property involved in the original action, wherein appellee DeFries was plaintiff and Cyphers and the appellants were defendants. The judgment in that case was that DeFries
We find no error in the record. Judgment affirmed.
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