Barker v. Phillips
Barker v. Phillips
Opinion of the Court
This application is for the purpose of obtaining a modification of our judgment, in such manner as to give to the plaintiffs an opportunity of showing that the intervenor, in whose favor we decreed the reimbursement of the sum of $ 1,600 to be paid to him out of the proceeds of the sale of the goods’ attached in the three suits, has not delivered to the sheriff all the goods subject to the attachments, and by him, said inter-venor, purchased of the defendant; that a large portion of the said goods remained in his possession, and have been by him disposed of; and that, on a fair settlement and liquidation of the value of the goods kept by the intervenor, it will be found that he has been fully reimbursed the amount to which he is entitled under our judgment.
We were under the impression, from the testimony of one of the witnesses, that the goods attached were all the goods sold by the defendant to the intervenor, as the witness testified, that when the attachment was levied, Stewart Haynes said that the goods seized were “ the goods belonging to Prentiss or Phillips, that came out in the ship Huntsville but on a re-examination of the record, we have been able to ascertain that dll the goods purchased were not delivered to the sheriff, the intervenor hav
The subsequent proceedings had in the court'below for the sale of the property, are not before us; the evidence in the record as to the value of the goods kept by the intervenor and their quantity, is insufficient; and we think justice requires that these cases should be remanded for further proceedings for the purpose only of ascertaining the quantity and value of the goods left in the intervenor’s possession and from which he has benefited, and liquidating the amount which, we think, should be ñrst applied to the satisfaction of his claim, before his being allowed to receive any part of the funds proceeding from the sale of the goods attached.
It is, therefore, ordered and decreed, that our judgment, so far as it goes, remain undisturbed; and that these three cases be remanded to the court below for further proceedings, for the purposes set forth in the present opinion, according to law, and the principles above recognized.
Reference
- Full Case Name
- Griffin BARKER and another v. Alfred Phillips William B. Skidmore v. The Same Richard H. Manning v. The Same
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- Published