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12 Ind. 666

Brisco v. Askey

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided June 29, 1859

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1859-06-29

<p>APPEAL from the Lagrange Court of Common Pleas.</p>

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Decided 1859-06-29

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Hanna, J.

¶1This was a proceeding supplementary to execution, by Askey against Brisco, under the statute (2 R. S. p. 152, § 518), which provides, in substance, that after a return of an execution, &c., unsatisfied, the judgment-creditor shall be entitled to an order, &c., requiring the defendant to appear, &c., and answer concerning his property within the county.

¶2The proceedings under §§ 518 and 519 are different. Under § 518, an order may issue without an affidavit. Under § 519, where proceedings are instituted after the execution has been issued, an affidavit must be filed that the judgment-debtor residing in the county has property *667(describing it) which he unjustly refuses to apply towards the satisfaction of the judgment. This proceeding was evidently under the 518th section, for no affidavit was filed, nor did the complaint filed to obtain the order, describe any property.

¶3It appears from a bill of exceptions, that the defendant was sworn, and, upon his testimony, the order and judgment hereafter noticed, was • entered. From that it is shown that he had property to the amount of 250 dollars’ worth, which was all, including his household furniture, that he possessed, except certain accounts which were standing upon his books against various individuals; that offsets existed against some of them, but to what amount he did not know; that he had not fraudulently-transferred or concealed any of his property, &c.

¶4The persons who were thus apparently indebted to the defendant were not made parties to the proceeding. This, it is provided, may be done (§ 522), and they required to appear and answer, &c. But before they can be so required to appear, &c., an affidavit must be filed stating such indebtedness, and that the same, together with other property claimed by the defendant as exempt from execution, exceeds the amount of property so exempt.

¶5The affidavit was not filed.

¶6The order entered was, that “the defendant deliver to the sheriff of said county said claims and demands to be sold on the execution in this case, which is now done iri open Court,” &c., and that he be enjoined from collecting the same, &c.

¶7This proceeding is wrong in several particulars. Whether the word property, as used in § 518, would include only such lands, goods, chattels, &c., as are, by law, subject to execution, in the first instance, without any extraordinary proceedings, we need not decide. To extend this extraordinary remedy, so as to include certain other means, the provisions of § 522 should be complied with. After the proper steps were taken, in that respect, the Court should not, in our opinion, have ordered the accounts sold on execution, but should have made an order that the *668defendant should not transfer them; and if the persons against whom the claims existed, had been parties, the 01^er have forbid them from paying the defendant, and have required the payment at maturity, &c., on the judgment of plaintiff. Pursell v. Pappenheimer, 11 Ind. R. 330.

R. Parrett, for the appellant.

¶8There was nothing on the record which authorized the Court to inquire as to the claims concerning which the order was made.

Per Cwriam.

¶9The judgment is reversed with costs. Cause remanded, &c.

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