Slinkard v. State ex rel. Shryer
Slinkard v. State ex rel. Shryer
Opinion of the Court
Action upon the official bond of a county clerk for alleged failure to pay over to the relator money paid to the clerk in redemption of real estate from an execution sale, at which the relator was the purchaser. The facts,are in a degree complicated, but need not be detailed. The question is whether the sale was void on account of the pendency of proceedings in bankruptcy against the execution defendant at the time of the issue and levy of the writ and of the sale. The judgment had' become a lion upon the property before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, and, together with other encumbrances, exceeded the value of the land. In view of this fact, the assignee in bankruptcy, who was also attorney of record for the plaintiff in the relator’s judgment, after con
We deem it clear that the sale made upon the relator’s execution, though it might, perhaps, have been enjoined, was not void on account of the proceedings in bankruptcy. Bump Bankruptcy (9th ed.), 216-228, 319, 328, 600.
The execution plaintiff might doubtless have been enjoined, at the suit of the assignee in bankruptcy, against proceeding to a sale upon his execution; but, the property being encumbei'ed for its full value, the assignee had the right to abandon it to sale in satisfaction of such liens; and this, it is shown, was done in this instance, with the advice and consent of the register in bankruptcy. No question is made of the good faith of the transaction.
Judgment affii’med.
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