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19 Ind. 253

Tucker v. White

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1862

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1862-11-15

<p>To determine the time when, after the stay of a judgment, an execution may issue, the day on which the- replevin bail is entered should be counted.</p>

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Decided 1862-11-15

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Perkins, J.

¶1This was an action to recover possession of real property. To show title under a sheriff’s sale, the plaintiff, among other items of evidence, offered an execution issued on the 20th of September, upon a judgment entered upon the records of the Court, which records, it is nof denied in the briefs, were signed on the 24th of March. Replevin bail had been entered for the stay of execution upon the judgment for one hundred and eighty days “ from the time of signing the judgment.” 2 Gr. & IT., p. 233. The execution was objected to, as having been prematurely issued, and as being, consequently, void, and the Court sustained the objection. Whether the objection would have been valid, had it been true in point of fact, we need not decide, as it was not true in point of fact.

¶2The judgment was signed on the 24th of March, and execution could have issued upon it on that day, had it not been stayed by bail. The 24th of March, then, is one of the one hundred and eighty days for which execution was stayed.

¶3Execution was stayed then :

¶4In March, - 8 days.

¶5In April, - 30 days.

¶6In May, 31 days.

¶7In June, - - -'30 days.

¶8In July, - - - 31 days.

¶9In August, - - - 31 days.

¶10Making 161 days.

¶11It requires in September, 19 days,

¶12To make the - - 180 days.

¶13The statute says, that “ at the expiration of the stay, it shall be the duty of the clerk to issue,” etc. 2 Gr. & H., p. 236.

¶14This is not a case where the statute requires an act to be done, like the granting of a new trial, for example, within *255a given number of days. 2 Gr. & H. 332. The question in the ease at bar is, when did one hundred and eighty days from an act done, viz.: “the signing of the judgment,” expire.

J. L. McDonald, A. D. Boache, D. Moss, and Joseph A. Lewis, for the appellant.8. Major, for the appellee.Per Curiam.

¶15The judgment below is reversed, with costs. Cause remanded for a new trial.

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