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120 Mo. App. 165

Strother v. Hilliker

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided October 1, 1906

Missouri Court of Appeals · decided 1906-10-01

— Hon. Hermann Brumbach, Judge. (1) The court erred in sustaining plaintiff’s motion to dismiss this cause for the reason that section 378, Revised Statutes 1899, was broad enough to permit plaintiff to have an attachment issued in aid of the revival of this dormant judgment. (2) An independent action by attachment or otherwise may be maintained on a judgment. Sheehan v. Simms, 28 Mo.

Relies on Bick v. Tanzey

Affirmed · Decided 1906-10-01

BROADDUS, P. J.

¶1On the 30th day of January, 1900, one W. H. Dixon recovered a judgment against defendant herein in a justice’s court, which he assigned to the plaintiff Strother. On January 26, 1905, the plaintiff filed in the court of James B. Shoemaker, the successor in office of the justice who had rendered said judgment, a petition to revive the same; and at the same time filed an affidavit in attachment, stating certain statutory grounds therefor. He also gave the necessary bond for an attachment. Whereupon the justice issued a writ of attachment in the usual form, which the constable executed by seizing two of defendant’s horses.

¶2Proper notice of the proceedings was served upon defendant, who appeared and filed a plea in abatement to the attachment, which, upon being heard, was sustained, and plaintiff appealed to the circuit court. When the case reached the circuit court, the defendant moved to dismiss it for the reason that the court had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter, which motion the court sustained and plaintiff appealed to this court.

¶3The action of the court was right; a judgment cannot be revived in the name of an assignee. [Bick v. Tanzey, 181 Mo. 515.] All the proceedings were void, as the justice had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter. Affirmed.

All concur.
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