Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Boyington v. Ranson

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided April 15, 1885PublishedCited by 4 opinions

Appeal from Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. F. M. Black, Judge. The defendant in the attachment suit having been personally served, the judgment and execution against him were general. 1 W. S. pp. 188, 189, secs. 36, 40. And by virtue of the provisions of 2 Wagner’s Statutes, page 841, section five, that execution was a perfect and subsisting lien on the goods, which had been seized under the writ of attachment and which were then in the custody of defendant Ranson, as…

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Appeal from Jaclcson Circuit Court. — Hon. F. M. Black, Judge. The defendant in the attachment suit having been personally served, the judgment and execution against him were general. 1 W. S. pp. 188, 189, secs. 36, 40. And by virtue of the provisions of 2 Wagner’s Statutes, page 841, section five, that execution was a perfect and subsisting lien on the goods, which had been seized under the writ of attachment and which were then in the custody of defendant Ranson, as constable. “In all cases of seizure of personal property, under attachment, the officer is compelled to determine, at his…

1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.

— Action on the bond of Ranson, as constable, for failure to execute and levy a certain execution in favor of relator and against Joseph Cochran. The facts in the case appear in the following agreed statement of facts:

“1. That on August 21, 1875, the relator commenced a suit, by attachment, against one Joseph *330Cochran before Langston Bacon, a justice of the peace in and for Kaw township, Jackson county, Mo., in which suit a writ of attachment was duly issued and directed and delivered to Thomas Fitzpatrick, the then constable of Kaw township, and which said writ of attachment was. duly served…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. School District No. 11 v. LauderbaughSupreme Court of Missouri · 1883
  2. State ex rel. Laclede Bank v. LewisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1882

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State ex rel. St. Louis & Kirkwood Railroad v. HirzelSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  2. State ex rel. Heckel v. KleinSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  3. State ex rel. Grand Avenue Railway Co. v. WoodSupreme Court of Missouri · 1897
  4. State ex rel. Craig v. WoodsonSupreme Court of Missouri · 1895

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