Cleary v. Second Municipality of New OrLeans
Cleary v. Second Municipality of New OrLeans
Opinion of the Court
The present defendants having instituted a suit against the unknown owners of a lot, for the expenses of the banquettes before it, and obtained judgment for $106, Cleary became the purchaser of it, at a Sheriff’s sale, for $1700, and was evicted
The counsel for the plaintiff have contended-that he was entitled to a judgment for the value of the lot, under the authority of the case of Lambeth v. The Mayor et al., 6 La. 731.
It does not appear to us, that the First Judge erred, in expressing the opinion that the obligalion of the plaintiff in a fi-fa., to refund to the purchaser, on his eviction; the money which the former received, is merely statutory. Code of Practice, arts. 711, et seq. In the case last cited this court held, that his obligalion went no farther. “ The responsibility established by the Code of Practice against seizing creditors cannot be extended further than the reimbursement of the price paid by the purchaser, and by them receivedThe counsel of the plaintiff and appellant have urged, that the code, art. 711, recognized in the purchaser, evicted from the thing adjudged to him on the ground that it belonged to another person than the party in whose hands it was taken, the right of “ recourse for reimbursement against the seized debtor and the seizing creditor ; but upon the judgment obtained jointly for that purpose, he shall first take execution against the debtor, and upon the return of such execution, no property found, he may take out execution against the creditor.” On this the counsel has strenuously urged, that the right of the purchaser to be reimbursed, even against the plaintiff in the fi. fa., extends to every thing which the former has paid ; and that he is entitled to a joint judgment against the plaintiff and defendant in the fi.fa., although the execution of that joint judgment cannot be taken against the former, until one against the latter be returned, nulla bona. The counsel for the defendants and appellees has, on the contrary, contended, that ihe reimbursement which the code speaks of, is the reimbursement which each of the parties to the fi.fa., is bound to make, idest, the plaintiff of what he has received, and the de
It has not appeared to us, that the judgment appealed from ought to be amended in favor of the defendants and appellees, on the ground that they never received from the Marshal the $106, to which they were entitled
Judgment affirmed.
It was admitted that the Municipality had never received any part of the funds made on the execution — not even the amount of their judgment.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Peter Cleary v. The Second Municipality of New Orleans
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- Published