Livsey v. Landers

12 How. Pr. 25

• Court: New York Court of Common Pleas
• Decided: January 15, 1856
• Status: Published

Opinion

Brady, Judge.

The order directing an execution against the person of the defendant in this action, was made under § 288 of the Code of Procedure, which is as follows:—

“If the action he one in which the defendant might have been arrested, as provided in §§ 179 and 181, an execution against the person of the judgment-debtor, may be issued to any county within the jurisdiction of the court, after the return of an execution against his property unsatisfied, in whole or in part,”— and upon the allegation that the debt, for which the judgment had been rendered, was fraudulently contracted.

The action was commenced in the justice’s court for the 3d district of the city of New-York, to recover for services rendered and materials found, and a transcript of the judgment rendered therein, filed, as provided by § 68; but although by that section the judgment of that court, by filing a transcript thereof, is to be deemed a judgment of the court of common ' pleas, and enforced in the same manner, the action so commenced was not one in which the defendant might have been arrested. That court had no jurisdiction to arrest the defendant. (The People ex rel. Corlis agt. Smith, 9 How. Pr. R. 464.)

For this reason, without reference to the questions suggested on the motion, the order allowing the execution to issue must be vacated, and the execution issued thereon set aside, with .$10 costs—the defendant stipulating not to sue.