Poor v. Hudson
Poor v. Hudson
Opinion of the Court
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The right of the appellee to recover the land in controversy is based on the deed made to her by the sheriff of Grant County in the year 1879. It seems that one Lewis Myers purchased at a sale made under a judgment in an action in equity a tract of' land for the sum of $2,111.50 and for the purchase-money executed his two bonds, one payable in six and the other in twelve months. The sale was confirmed and, Myers failing to pay the purchase-money,
Another ñ. fa. issued on the bonds with a credit entered of the amount realized from the first sale, and on the 20th of January, 1874, was levied by the same sheriff on a tract of fifty acres of land belonging to Myers with a proper description of the land made on the return evidencing the levy. In July, 1874, the sheriff sold the fifty acres of land and it was purchased by the attorney of the plaintiff for $600, and in May, 1876, the sheriff made to Mrs. Hudson, the appellee, a deed to the land.
In the spring of 1875, after the levy and sale of the land under the execution, the owner, Lewis Myers, sold and conveyed the land to the appellant, Poor, who entered into the possession under his purchase without notice of the execution sale. The validity of the judgment upon which the sale was made and the bonds of Myers executed is not questioned, and Myers when ruled to pay the purchase-money consented that execution should issue on the bonds. It is agreed by counsel for the appellant that the execution is invalid because.it issued for the aggregate amount of the two bonds, and that an execution should have been issued on each bond. The case of Merchie v. Gaines, 5 B. Mon. (Ky.) 126, is relied on in support of the position taken. There the execution issued on two separate judgments and from the record it appears that the execution was for costs, for a part of which one Bristow was liable and for the balance one Fowler. Fowler’s land was sold under the execution and probably for Bristow’s costs. The court in the opinion says: “We know of no law or rule or practice which authorize a joint execution upon two separate judgments.” This is doubtless the correct rule, but here in an action in equity the party is proceeding against the purchaser for failing to comply with his bonds and pay the purchase-money. There was but one judgment, one sale, and the execution of the two bonds for the purchase-money. Both bonds were due and we perceive no reason why the execution was not properly issued for the entire amount. The court would and did require, in effect, the purchaser by the rule to pay into court the aggregate amount of both • bonds and, failing to pay, the execution was issued for the entire amount of the indebtedness and interest. In this we perceive no error. The
It is again urged that the appellant was a purchaser for value without notice. This equitable principle has never been applied to sales of land under execution, and the purchaser from the execution debtor, prior to the year 1878, bought at his peril. It may be a case of hardship on the part of the appellant as the land was in Grant County and the execution was issued and returned to Pendleton County. The land was clear of any incumbrance in Grant but was in lien by reason of the levy of the execution from Pendleton. By an act passed in 1878 the legislature provided that where a sheriff sold land located in one county under a fi. fa. from another county, he should produce the same with his return of sale thereon to the clerk of the county in which the land is for
The judgment below is affirmed.
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