116 Ind. App. 206 - Williams v. Lyddick’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 2005
5 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Sharpe v. Baker · First Nat. Bank of Goodland v. Pothuisje · Echelbarger v. First Natl. Bank of Swayzee · 98 Ind. App. 587 - White v. White · Jackson v. Swope
Most-quoted passages
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“‘‘We are aware that the Supreme Court has held that the immunities that accrue to bankrupts by reason of their discharge do not protect a bankrupt husband and wife against seizure and sale of entirety property in satisfaction of a joint judgment when the particular entirety property so seized constituted the basis for the credit extended to such husband and wife when the joint debt represented by the judgment was created. First Nat. Bank of Goodland v. Pothuisje (1940), 217 Ind. 1 , 25 N. E. (2d) 436. We are further aware that the Supreme Court has said that the lien of a joint judgment, which has attached to entirety property, is not destroyed by. the individual discharge in bankruptcy of both the husband and wife. Echelbarger v. First Nat. of Swayzee (1937), 211. Ind. 199, 5 N. E. (2d) 966. Neither of these decisions, however, can be construed to hold that the individual property of a husband or wife, each of whom has been discharged in bankrupty (sic), can be seized and sold to satisfy a joint judgment against them in personam. In fact these holdings are quite the contrary and ip each of them there is recognition of the principle that the individual discharge in bankruptcy of a husband and wife destroys the personal and several liability of each of them arising out of a joint judgment. “It is clear to us that the lower court exceeded its power when it authorized the issuance of an execution under the direction of which the sheriff of Lake County can seize and sell the indi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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