Cline v. Green
Indiana Supreme Court
ERROR to the Dearborn Circuit Court. — -An execution issued in favour of Cline on a judgment against Green, whose property was thereupon taken and sold. Afterwards, this execution and the proceedings thereon, upon the motion of Green, and without any previous notice to Cline, were quashed by the Circuit Court, on the ground that the execution had issued without the order of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtHolman, J.
The grounds on which this motion was sustained are unimportant, inasmuch as a previous notice of the motion was indispensible. Every individual has an unquestionable right of being heard when his interest is jeopardised by legal proceedings; but unless he has notice of those proceedings, he has no opportunity of being heard. While a suit is depending the plaintiff is considered in Court, and ready to support his right; but when the judgment is obtained, judicial proceedings are at an end, and the plaintiff is considered in Court no longer* Every objection afterwards made to the manner in…
2Cited by3 opinions
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