West Side National Bank of Chicago v. Warsaw Discount Bank

204 A.D. 4, 197 N.Y.S. 144, 1922 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 8911

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: December 15, 1922
• Status: Published

Opinion

Smith, J.:

The appeal from the order denying the motion to resettle must be dismissed. (Waltham Mfg. Co. v. Brady, 67 App. Div. 102; Pinchot v. New York Elevated R. R. Co., 49 id. 356.)

The other appeal is from the condition of the original order requiring the defendant to pay the fees of the sheriff in order to secure the release of property unlawfully attached. The action was brought for damages, and the amount of $12,400 of defendant’s, deposited in a bank in the city of New York, was attached. Upon motion the attachment was set aside, and the order of publication was set aside, as the court was without jurisdiction. The defendant was thereupon entitled to the return of the moneys attached. No obligation rested upon the defendant to pay the sheriff’s fees, because the moneys were unlawfully taken by the sheriff upon a void attachment. The order should have required the return of all the moneys attached, and should at the same time have required the plaintiff in that action to pay the sheriff’s fees which had accumulated. The condition in the order, therefore, requiring the defendant to pay the fees of the sheriff in order to obtain the moneys unlawfully attached, was unauthorized, and the order asked for should have been granted to return all of the moneys attached.

The order appealed from, therefore, should be modified so as to conform to the order as originally proposed by the defendant, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to appellant.

Clarke, P. J., Page, Greenbatjm and Finch, JJ., concur.

Order modified as directed in opinion, with ten dollars costs and disbursements to appellant. Settle order on notice.