Dean v. Garnett
Dean v. Garnett
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court
That the petition in this case was sufficient, and that the-judgment in favor of the appellee for the amount of the bill sued on. was proper, admits of no serious question. Nor did the court err, in our opinion, in sustaining the attachment.
It appears that the affidavit of the plaintiff was filed, and. the order of attachment issued thereon, before 12 o’clock on the 15th, and that the sheriff made his- official indorsement on
The right of the plaintiff, by his attorney, to withdraw the order of attachment from the hands of the sheriff (the latter consenting), is clear. And not less clear was the right of the plaintiff, or his attorney in his absence from the county, to file the supplemental affidavit (Allen vs. Brown, Summer Term, 1863), especially as there was no intervening attachment to be affected by the amendment. There was then a valid and sufficient affidavit, a valid and sufficient bond. Did the order of attachment which was placed in the hands of the sheriff at the time and in the manner stated, confer upon that officer a valid authority to seize the property of the appellant? We think it did. It was treated by the party, by the clerk, and by the sheriff, as the order which issued on the supplemental affidavit. In point of fact, it was so issued by the clerk, and is entitled to the same effect as if it had been written and signed at that time. It would be extremely technical to hold that this process was invalid, but that the same words and figures written on a different piece of paper would have constituted a valid process. Besides, no possible injury resulted, or could have resulted to the appellant, from the manner in which the order was issued. The sheriff might have erased the indorsement, and the erasure by the clerk was immaterial and furnished no ground of complaint on the part of the appellant. The act was recognized and sanctioned by the only person
We think the evidence was entirely sufficient to sustain the judgment, and it is therefore affirmed.
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