Cumberland Bank v. Hann
Supreme Court of New Jersey
This case, involving the question of priority among certain executions, came before the court upon a certificate of the Circuit Court of the county of Cumberland.
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This case, involving the question of priority among certain executions, came before the court upon a certificate of the Circuit Court of the county of Cumberland. Six executions having been levied upon the property of Richard Hann the defendant, the property sold and the proceeds of the sale brought into court, E. P. Seeley claimed to have the money raised first applied to the satisfaction of the throe oldest executions in the order of their priority in respect to each other; P. P. Thompson insisted that the fourth and fifth executions were entitled to priority and should be first paid: while…
1Opinion of the CourtHornblower, C. J.
This case was argued before me at the Cumberland Circuit in June last, and after giving it the best consideration I could, in the hurry of that and the immediately succeeding Circuits, I came to the conclusion, that the execution in favor of the Cumberland Bank ought to be first satisfied in full, all the other executions having lost their priority. An order to that effect was accordingly made; but inasmuch as I knew there was some conflict of opinion at the bar, and at least an apparent discrepancy in the reported decisions of this court, on the subject, I tendered myself willing, at the…
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