Graham v. Hughes

Supreme Court of Alabama

Graham v. Hughes

77 Ala. 590

CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

DecidedDecember 15, 1884

StatusPublished

Cited by5 cases

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Graham v. Hughes, 77 Ala. 590 (Ala. 1884).

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STONE, O. J.

The present case originated before a justice of the peace, in an attachment sued out by Hughes & Hughes against Murray, which was levied on cotton in the seed. Graham asserts that he has a just title to the cotton. Some proceedings were had before the justice, looking to a trial of the right of -property, but precisely what was done is not clearly shown. The justice dismissed Graham’s claim, and rendered judgment against him for costs. In Walker v. Ivey, 74 Ala. 475, we decided that a trial of the right of property could not be had, without a preliminary affidavit of claim. That, we held, was the initial step, without which jurisdiction of this statutory action is not given. If then there had been no affidavit of claim, Graham had acquired no standing in court, and the justice rightly dismissed his claim, independent of any reason he may have given for his ruling.

This case was then carried by certiorari to the Circuit Court, and the plaintiff moved to dismiss the cause out of that court, alleging as a ground that no-affidavit of claim and bond for the trial of the right of property had been filed in the justice’s court. — Code of 1876, § 3341, as amended by act approved February 1, 1879. — Sess. Acts, p. 76. Claimant then moved to be allowed to substitute affidavit and bond, alleging they had been given, and were lost. Testimony was offered before the court on this question ; some of it tending to show such affi'davit and bond had been made and filed, and other parts of it that no such papers had ever been filed with the constable [591]*591making the levy, nor with the justice before whom the attachment was pending. — Code, § 3676. The Circuit Court overruled the motion .to substitute, and dismissed the cause, at Graham’s cost; thus holding that the testimony failed to convince him the affidavit and bond had been filed with the justice of the peace. In thus finding on the testimony, we are not clearly convinced he erred. — Nooe v. Garner, 70 Ala. 443.

The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.

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STONE, O. J.

The present case originated before a justice of the peace, in an attachment sued out by Hughes & Hughes against Murray, which was levied on cotton in the seed. Graham asserts that he has a just title to the cotton. Some proceedings were had before the justice, looking to a trial of the right of -property, but precisely what was done is not clearly shown. The justice dismissed Graham’s claim, and rendered judgment against him for costs. In Walker v. Ivey, 74 Ala. 475, we decided that a trial of the right of property could not be had, without a preliminary affidavit of claim. That, we held, was the initial step, without which jurisdiction of this statutory action is not given. If then there had been no affidavit of claim, Graham had acquired no standing in court, and the justice rightly dismissed his claim, independent of any reason he may have given for his ruling.

This case was then carried by certiorari to the Circuit Court, and the plaintiff moved to dismiss the cause out of that court, alleging as a ground that no-affidavit of claim and bond for the trial of the right of property had been filed in the justice’s court. — Code of 1876, § 3341, as amended by act approved February 1, 1879. — Sess. Acts, p. 76. Claimant then moved to be allowed to substitute affidavit and bond, alleging they had been given, and were lost. Testimony was offered before the court on this question ; some of it tending to show such affi'davit and bond had been made and filed, and other parts of it that no such papers had ever been filed with the constable [591]*591making the levy, nor with the justice before whom the attachment was pending. — Code, § 3676. The Circuit Court overruled the motion .to substitute, and dismissed the cause, at Graham’s cost; thus holding that the testimony failed to convince him the affidavit and bond had been filed with the justice of the peace. In thus finding on the testimony, we are not clearly convinced he erred. — Nooe v. Garner, 70 Ala. 443.

The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.

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