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12 Abb. Pr. 242

Brush v. Mullen

New York Supreme Court

Decided March 15, 1861

New York Supreme Court · decided 1861-03-15

<p>Arrest. .</p> <p>A complaint showing a cause of action for the recovery of possession of real property, but claiming no damages for the withholding, is not sufficient to authorize an order of arrest, especially where no injury to the premises is shown.</p> <p>It seems, that subdivision 1 of section 179 of the Code, so far as it mentions taking, detaining, or converting property, refers to personal property only.</p>

Decided 1861-03-15

Leonard, J.

¶1—The order of arrest herein must be vacated. The complaint is on a claim of title by plaintiffs to land, and alleges that defendant ejected them, and detains possession.

¶2The case of Merritt a. Carpenter (30 Barb., 61) is relied oh by the plaintiffs to sustain the arrest.

¶3It appears to me to prove the contrary. It shows that the final clause of the first subdivision of section 179 of the Code, so far as it mentions taking, detaining, or converting property, refers to personal property only. That the mention of injuring property, refers both to real and personal property..

¶4The complaint in that case contained a claim for damages for withholding the premises. The opinion says the claim for mesne profits, or damages for withholding the land, is a trespass, and trespass in such case is an injury to property, and therefore under sec. 179, subdivision 1, the defendant, is there subject to an arrest.

¶5No such case is made by the complaint in this action.

¶6There can be no recovery for an injury to real property. Nothing is said in the affidavit upon which the order of arrest was made of any injury to the premises. '

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