Learned v. Walton

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

In this appeal from an order of seizure and sale, the principal point of complaint seems to he that the judge granted and signed the order at chambers on the petition and accompanying documents before the latter were filed in court. The authority of the judge to act in chambers is not questioned, but it is claimed that he could not validly so act until after the judicial proceeding had been inaugurated by filing the petition in court.

We find no merit in the point. The order of seizure and sale is one granted in limine and at the very…