Dunning v. Posten
Dunning v. Posten
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
This is an action to recover specific personal property. Judgment was rendered against the plaintiff and in favor of defendants Roundtree and Bisel on their motions for judgment on the pleadings. The plaintiff appeals.
The plaintiff’s pleadings consisted of an ordinary petition and affidavit in replevin. The action .was dismissed as to defendant W. H. Posten. Defendants Roundtree and Bisel filed, separate answers. Each of these answers disclosed the follow
“When a constable shall levy on or attach property claimed by any person or persons other than the party against whom the execution or attachment issued, the claimant or claimants shall give three days’ notice in writing to the attachment or execution creditor, his attorney or his agent, . ... of the time and place of the trial of the right to such property, which trial shall be had before some justice of the township, at least one day prior to the time appointed for the sale of such property.”
Under the facts disclosed by the pleadings in the present case, the notice provided for in this statute was not given. Section 45 of the code of civil procedure reads:
“Any person claiming property, money, effects or credits attached as the property, money, effects or credits of another, may interplead in the cause, verifying the same by affidavit made by himself, agent or attorney, and issues may be made upon such interpleader, and shall be*118 tried as like issues between plaintiff and defendant and without any unnecessary delay. In all cases of interpleader, costs may be adjudged for or against either party, as in ordinary cases.”
In his interplea the plaintiff, Dunning, claimed the property-attached. The property was of the kind described in section 45 of the code of civil procedure. The instrument filed was denominated “Interpleader of E. M. Dunning.” It was verified by E. M. Dunning. It was tried at the same time and, presumably, in the same manner as the issues between the plaintiff and the defendant in the action before the justice of the peace were tried. The instrument filed by Dunning did not comply with any of the provisions named in section 152a of the justices’ civil code, but did comply with all of the requirements of section 45 of the code of civil procedure. It must be held that the plaintiff, Dunning, did interplead under that section, and that he must abide all the consequences following the trial of his interplea. Those consequences are that the plaintiff, Dunning, is bound by the judgment rendered by the justice of the peace on that interplea, and can not maintain another action for the recovery of the property. (James Clark & Co. v. Wiss & Ballard, 34 Kan. 553, 555, 9 Pac. 281; Meegan v. Pettibone-Gentry Co., 85 Kan. 536, 538, 118 Pac. 64.)
“Demurrer to evidence filed by plaintiff, N. M. Bisel, court sustained demurrer, and rendered judgment against claimant for costs.”
That' language clearly and conclusively shows that the plaintiff’s claims to the ownership of the property were decided against him, and that judgment was rendered against him for costs, which was the only judgment that could have been rendered against Dunning in that action.
The judgment is affirmed.
Reference
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- R M. Dunning v. W. H. Posten (J. B. Roundtree and N. M. Bisel, Appellees)
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- SYLLABUS BY THE COURT. 1. Attachment — Interplea Filed — Judgment Binding on Interpleader —Res Judicata. A judgment on an interplea .filed in an attachment proceeding under section 45 of the code of civil procedure is binding on the interpleader and on the parties to the action, and is a bar to another action by the interpleader for the recovery of the possession of the property in controversy. 2. Same — Entry on Justice’s Docket — Valid Judgment. An entry on the docket of a justice of the peace as follows: “Demurrer to evidence filed by plaintiff, N. M. Bisel, Court sustained demurrer, and rendered judgment against claimant for costs,” shows that judgment was rendered against the claimant for costs.