Glenn v. Clayton's Administratrix
Glenn v. Clayton's Administratrix
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
The action of the circuit court in giving the instruction complained of was not excepted to and can not be revised on this appeal.
The essential inquiry is as to the sufficiency in law of appellee’s petition. The action is founded on an injunction bond by which the obligors therein stipulated to pay to appellee such damages as she might sustain in. case it was finally decided that the injunction ought not to have been granted. , The bond was executed under the provisions of- the act amending the 308th section of the Civil Code of P'ractice. It is true that the county judge did not in express words authorize a bond to be taken to the effect that the party obtaining the injunction should pay to appellee such damages as she might sustain in case it should finally be decided that the injunction ought not to- have been granted, as it was his imperative duty to do under the amendment. But his failure in this regard did not operate as a suspension of the obligation in this particular case of the provisions of the statute.. It is .evident the legislature intended in all cases of injunction to stay proceedings upon a judgment or final order, that the clerk should take a bond similar to- that executed'by Spray and his sureties, unless the party obtaining the injunction desires to discharge the levy and voluntarily executes the bond originally prescribed by Section 308. The order of the county judge was that the clerk should issue the injunction upon the execution of a bond “in the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, according to law.” The bond accepted is conditioned “According to law” and is such a bond as the clerk was bound to accept when tendered.
At the time the injunction was granted appellee’s execution was in the hands of the sheriff- and had been levied on personal prop
By Section 308 of the Civil Code of Practice, before it was amended, “where the injunction is to stay proceedings upon a judgment or final order, the bond shall be to. the effect that the party obtaining the injunction will satisfy the judgment or order, or so much of it as is enjoined, to the extent to which the injunction may be dissolved, and that he will satisfy any modified judgment or order that m-ay be rendered in lieu of it, or so. much of it as exc'eeds the amount left unenjoined.” The amendment of February 15, 1866, requires the officer granting such injunction to authorize a bond to be executed, conditioned as that upon which this action is based. Where the bond is given in accordance with this section, as originally adopted, the judgment creditor upon the dissolution may proceed at once upon such bond and recover the full amount of his claim, regardless of the facts, that the defendants in the judgment may be perfectly solvent, and that he has sustained no real damage from the injunction other than delay, costs and expenses. His right to proceed upon a- bond given under the amendment depends upon whether he has in point of fact been damaged by the injunction. Furgeson v. Tipton, etc., 1 B. Monroe 28; Ashby v. Tureman, 3 Littell 6. The facts stated in the petition must show that the plaintiff has sustained actual damages, and these statements of fact must be upheld by proof. In this case the petition merely recites
Appellee did not object to the order of court extending the time for appellants to file a bill of exceptions, until the next term, nor ask that the extension should be to a day certain, neither did she object to the order permitting said bill to be filed.
For the reasons given the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. The parties should be allowed to amend their pleadings in case they desire to do so.
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