Lowry v. Jenkins
Lowry v. Jenkins
070rehearing
The opinion on the petition for rehearing was delivered on the S3d of April 18X4, as follows, by
An opinion was delivered in this case at the last term of this court, affirming the judgment of the court below. A rehearing of the cause was then asked, for the various reasons stated in the appellants’petition ; but upon further examination, we still think the former opinion correct.
The only point on which there can be any room for doubt, is as to the effect of an order made by the court below at the October term, 1810. If that order has* the effect of authorising the emanation of the habere facias against the appellee for the land of which restitution was awarded bun by the judgment of the court below, the reasons upon which this court went in the former opinion fail, and that opinion should consequently be set aside. But we apprehend that order cannot be considered to have such efficacy. It states, “ that pn the motion of the appellants a writ of habere facias
We think, therefore, the order made at the October term, did not justify the writ of hub. fa. pos. and that it consequently irregularly issued before a revival of the ^Judgment by scire facias, according to the opinion heretofore given, and that the petition for a rehearing must be overruled,
Opinion of the Court
OPINION of the Court, by
The appellants Raving brought an action of ejectment in the Jessamine court, upon the motion of Lewis Craig, he tvas admitted defendant, and at a subsequent term confessed judgment, and a writ of habere facias póssessio-neni was awarded against him. The appellee Jenkinsj also during the pendency of the ejectment, was admitted á defendant, and subsequent to the judgment being awarded against Craig, he agreed that judgment should be entered against him ; and accordingly judgment was awarded in favor of the appellant John Lowry, against the appellee. At a subsequent term, on the motion of the appellants, commissioners were appointed to ascertain the improvements, rents, &c. according to the provisions ol the act concerning occupying claimants of land ; arid the commissioners having reported a balance of 23!. 9s. 6d. in favor of the appellee, judgment was entered in his favor for that sum.
Several years after, judgments were entered in the ejectment against Craig and Jenkins ; without a reviVal being had against Jenkins, the appellants caused a habere facias possessionem to issue against both Craig and jt nkins, which was executed by the sheriff delivering possession of the land recovered to the appellants. After which the appellee, on the 29th October 181 1, caused a notice to be given the appellant, that he would on the next day move the court of Jessamine to set aside the report of the commissioners, quash the writ of habere facias possessionem, and to award him restitution, &c. On the motion being brought on,-the appellants appeared by their attorney and moved for a continuance, which was overruled, and the court ordered the order oppointing commissioners to be set aside, the writ of execution to be quashed, and restitution to be madeuaf the land : from which the appellants have ap|5fealedrr
The first inquiry presented for consideration, is, as to the sufficiency of the notice. It is^dyected that it is insufficient, because it was given by one^of ->tlj&«, defendants in the execution, and that it was unreasonably
What length of notice should be given in cases of this description, must depend on the circumstances of each particular case. And although in the present case the notice was very short, when it is considered that the grounds upon which the motion was founded, depended on matter of record, and that those facts which the appellants desired time to prove, were admited by the appellee ; we cannot say the notice was so unreasonable as to justify a reversal of the judgment of the court below for that cause. We think the notice, therefore, substantially good, and that the court decided correctly in sustaining the motion to quash.
That the habere facias possessionem, issued improperly and irregularly there can be no doubt. It should have issued against Craig only, and not against Craig and Jenkins.
The judgment against Jenkins having been awarded for more than one year prior to the date of the writ, •could not justify an execution, unless previously revived by scire facias ; and there having been no revival inthia case against the appellee, the execution was evidently erroneous, and the court consequently decided correctly in sustaining the motion and quashing the execution. If, then, the court decided correctly in quashing the execution, it necessarily results that their decision awarding a restitution is also correct: for it is. clear where ever a writ of habere facias possesionem, which has been executed by giving possesion, is avoided by the judgment of a court, a writ of restitution should be awarded. ’
It is assigned for error that the court erred in setting .aside the order appointing commissioners. We think.
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