Neely v. Woodward
Neely v. Woodward
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the Court.
On the 17th of November, 1860, Woodward recovered a judgment before a Justice of the Peace, in Sumner county, against Neely, for $205, which was stayed. On the 5th of February, 1866, an execution issued on this judgment, which was superseded by Neely, upon the ground that on the 5th of March, 1862, he paid it in full to W. F. Andrews, the officer who served the warrant. The proof before the jury on the issue of payment was, that the attorney of Woodward took out a warrant and handed it to Andrews, a Deputy Sheriff, to be served on Neely; that the attorney attended at the trial and obtained judg
The plaintiff, Woodward, requested the Court to charge the jury, “ that if Andrews, the Deputy Sheriff, collected the amount of the debt against Neely in Confederate money, without the consent of Woodward, Woodward would not be bound by his action.” The Court declined to give the instruction. What instructions were given to the jury, the record does not show. We are to presume then that the charge was correct and satisfactory on all other matters except as to the point specially requested, and hence that it was not inserted in the bill of exceptions.
The jury found that Neely had paid the debt, and the court accordingly quashed the execution. The only matter left open for our determination is, whether the Circuit Judge erred in declining to instruct the jury that if the Deputy Sheriff collected the executions in Confederate money, without the consent of Woodward, he would not be bound by the act of the officer. This proposition assumes that Andrews had an execution and had it as a collecting officer.
In such case this Court has determined that as an officer is bound to make the money on an execution, he is authorized to receive in payment the currency which is at the time circulating in money, and that such payment would be a satisfaction of the execution, without the consent of the creditor. We have recognized a distinction between a collection by an agent who voluntarily received Confederate money in payment of the debt of his principal, without his instructions or consent, express or implied, and an officer who is required by law to maké the collection.
It is in proof that Andrews was not intrusted in the usual way with the collection of the note, he gave no receipts, and did not take the note into possession, nor did he take out a warrant; all he did was to execute and return the warrant.
The plaintiff’s attorney attended the trial and obtained judgment, which was in November, 1860. These facts clearly indicate that Andrews had no au
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