Mobile Cotton Press & Building Co. v. Moore
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to Mobile County court. Rule upon the sheriff, &c, The plaintiffs in error moved the County court of Mobile upon affidavits filed, for a rule to be addressed to the defendants, requiring them to show cause why the sale made by Magee, as sheriff, to Moore, under an execution issued from that court, at the suit of Edward Harding, against the plaintiffs in error, should not be set aside, and the conveyance (if any) to the purchaser, delivered up and cancelled.
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Error to Mobile County court. Rule upon the sheriff, &c, The plaintiffs in error moved the County court of Mobile upon affidavits filed, for a rule to be addressed to the defendants, requiring them to show cause why the sale made by Magee, as sheriff, to Moore, under an execution issued from that court, at the suit of Edward Harding, against the plaintiffs in error, should not be set aside, and the conveyance (if any) to the purchaser, delivered up and cancelled. The rule was accordingly granted, returnable on a day therein expressed, and duly served on the defendants. Several affidavits were…
1Opinion of the Court
COLLIER, C. X.
It is well settled at common law, that courts of judicature possess a controlling power over the acts of their officers, which it is their duty to exercise in advancement of justice. Thus, if a sheriff is guilty of an irregularity in- his proceedings upon an execution, to the prejudice of either party, or a third person, the court will either set aside, or correct the act complained of. As, for example, if a sheriff, in executing a writ of habere facias possessionem, deliver to the plaintiff the possession of other or more land than he has recovered,, the court, on motion, will…
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