Storm v. Woods
New York Supreme Court
THIS was an action on the case against the defendant, as late sheriff of Washington county, for a false return on a test. Ji. fa. against Peter Hilton, at the suit of the plaintiffs. The declaration contained two counts: the first charged a ® false return of nulla bona, after the defendant had seized and levied on sufficient property of Hilton to satisfy the execution.
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THIS was an action on the case against the defendant, as late sheriff of Washington county, for a false return on a test. Ji. fa. against Peter Hilton, at the suit of the plaintiffs. The declaration contained two counts: the first charged a ® false return of nulla bona, after the defendant had seized and levied on sufficient property of Hilton to satisfy the execution. The second count, averring that Hilton had sufficient goods, &c. within the bailiwick of the defendant, on which he might and ought to have levied the amount endorsed on the execution, but ^ nob ^c* though he had notice, &c.…
1Per curiam
This case comes within the principle laid down and recognised by this court, in the case of Whipple v. Foot, (2 Johns. Rep. 422.) that if a creditor seize the goods of his debtor, on an execution, and suffer them to remain in his hands, the execution is deemed fraudulent and void, as against a subsequent execution. This rule has been long established in the English courts,(a) and is founded upon reasons best calculated to prevent fraud.
So far as the facts disclosed at the trial were proper to be ' submitted to a jury, they must be understood to have been found b.y them. That the property was…
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