Kopplin v. Ludwig
Kopplin v. Ludwig
Opinion of the Court
On February 19, 1914, Louis Kopplin, as the assignee of Otto Klaus, filed suit against Herman. Ludwig on a note for the principal sum of $2,000, dated July 24, 1913, and due on demand, for 8 per cent, interest per annum, and for 10 per cent, attorney’s fees, as well as to foreclose a lien given to secure said note on 15 barrels of whisky stored on the premises at No. 1929 North New Braunfels avenue, in San. Antonio. The judgment for the debt and foreclosure, which recites service on Ludwig, was taken on March 9, 1914, in the Thirty-Seventh district court of Texas, in Bexar county.
On April 10, 1914, Martin Coppard, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Herman Ludwig, filed in said cause an application reciting that an involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed against Herman Ludwig in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, at San Antonio, and that on Feb:ruary 13, 1914, the said Ludwig was duly adjudged a bankrupt, and on the 13th of March, 1914, Martin Coppard was duly elected and qualified as trustee of the Ludwig estate. It is further shown in the affidavit that an order of sale had issued on the judgment of foreclosure in the state court, and that John W. Tobin, sheriff of Bexar county, had advertised a sale of said whisky to satisfy the judgment, and the date of the sale was April 11, 1914. Prayer was that the Thirty-Seventh district court of Bexar county, Tex., make an order withdrawing the order and forbidding the sheriff to proceed with the sale of the property, and for general relief. This application was verified as follows:
“The State of Texas, County of Bexar. “Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Henry A. Hirsh-berg, attorney of record for Trustee Martin Coppard, and who, being by me duly sworn, deposes and says that he believes the material allegations in the foregoing petition to be true. April 10, 1914.
“[Seal.] Geo. E. Bell, Notary Public,
“Bexar County, Texas.”
The sheriff responded to the writ of injunction which the court issued and which was served on him by a general demurrer, reserving the right to answer at the next regular term of the court, and prayed that, the temporary injunction be dissolved.
On April 20, 1914, the court, after hearing the demurrers, overruled same, and made permanent the injunction theretofore issued, and the sheriff and Louis Kopplin thereupon excepted and gave notice of appeal. Later, on application by Coppard, the court modified the injunction by omitting that part making it permanent, and ordered the sheriff immediately to turn over the whisky to Martin Coppard, trustee. Kopplin and the sheriff filed a second motion for a new trial, which was overruled April 29, 1914, but the court permitted Kopplin to give a supersedeas bond to prevent the delivery of the whisky to Coppard, trustee, and this was done. Kop-plin alone has perfected his appeal.
These observations are made in view of further proceedings in tbe case, since we cannot indulge any presumption as to the truth of tbe allegations, in the absence of the statutory verification.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
On Motion for Rehearing.
Tbe last temporary injunction is a different one from tbe first, in that it is a mandatory order requiring the sheriff to deliver to Coppard the whisky, while tbe first merely commanded him to desist from making the sale. There was no motion to dissolve this last order wherein that part making it permanent was eliminated. Appellant had placed himself in a position to appeal from tbe final judgment making tbe injunction permanent by filing his motion for a new trial. When be did this, the court changed the order, making it a temporary order. There was no motion to dissolve tbis last temporary order, and there was the additional mandatory provision in it that was not in the first temporary order, which would certainly give him the right to appeal when it was granted.
Tbe court was undecided as to what action to take as indicated by the modification and changes; so that be did not act finally until the order was made from which this appeal is taken. And even if the last modification be held to reach back to tbe former order, as it does, thére was no mandatory feature in that- temporary order wbicb appellant moved to dissolve, and when that new pro- *107 yision is inserted in the injunction, appellant had a right to appeal.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.
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