Thomas v. Weed
This text of 14 Johns. 255 (Thomas v. Weed) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering New York Supreme Court primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The remedy by action of debt for “ the amount of the execution,” given by the 13th section of the 25 dollar act, (1 N. R. L. 395.,) is in the nature of a penalty, and the measure of the penalty cannot be extended beyond the letter of the statute.
If the plaintiff below had pursued his common law remedy, by a special action on the case, for negligence, or by an action for money had and received, he would have been entitled to interest on the sum proved to have been received by the constable, or actually lost by his negligence. If the creditor, as in this case, chooses to avail himself of the statute remedy, so as to relieve himself from the necessity of proving actual loss, he must be satisfied with “ the amount of the execution.”
Judgment reversed.
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