Buckner v. Bush
Buckner v. Bush
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court :
This is a contest between several attaching creditors on constructive service. The proceeds of the attached property sold under an order of sale made at the May term, 1862, being
To reverse that judgment, the common debtor, Zachariah E. Bush, and two of his other attaching creditors, prosecute this appeal, and urge several objections to the judgment in the following order:
1. That the order at the May term, for a sale for the exclusive benefit of the appellees, was premature and unauthorized as to Gordons, and even also as to his co-appellees, because, on the petition of the Gordons, there had been no warning order, and the warning order on the petition of his co-appellees was for an appearance at the July term, 1862.
The prescribed distribution was, during the same May term, suspended by the court, and was not made final until the November term, 1862.. But, if there was any error in prematurely rendering any judgment at the May term, it is not available in this court. The 578th section of the Code declares that premature judgments shall be deemed clerical misprisions only. And the 577th section provides that a clerical misprision shall not be revisable by this court until the circuit court has refused on motion to correct it. There having been no such motion or refusal in this case, we cannot take cognizance of the alleged error.
2. That there never having been any warning order on the petition of the Gordons, the judgment for distribution was, as to them at least, unauthorized and erroneous ; and this is true. But, as the fund will not quite pay the debts of their co-appellees, the error appears, to be prejudicial to them only, and not to any of the appellants.
3. That it was erroneous to adjudge that the notes exhibited in the petition of the appellees, Bush and Buckner, were genuine without proof aliunde of their genuineness, because the petitions contained no allegation, which, under the Code, would allow the court to take anything for confessed on merely constructive notice. The practical construction by this court does not, in such a case of exhibits prima facie genuine and right, require any other proof of them.
Wherefore, perceiving no available error in the judgment, it is affirmed.
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