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19 Misc. 349

Mandel v. Gorman

City of New York Municipal Court

Decided February 15, 1897

City of New York Municipal Court · decided 1897-02-15

This, action was commenced by the plaintiff on or about the lYth day of April, 1893, against the defendant Heusner and John J. Gorman, as sheriff of the óounty of Eew York, to recover damages for a wrongful levy and. sale of the plaintiff’s'goods and chattels under an alleged attachment. „ . .

Decided 1897-02-15

Per Ouriam.

¶1Wé think that the condition in the order .appealed from, requiring -the additional bond from the indemnitors, before their substitution as the defendants would be granted in the place of the sheriff, was in excess of the power of the court.

¶2It seems to us that as a matter of right the sheriff was entitled to have the indemnitors substituted in his stead as defendants, without the condition referred to Upon his application to have that done.

¶3The order appealed from must be modified by striking therefrom the words upon their filing a bond_ conditioned for the payment of any judgment recovered in this action,” and as so modified it is affirmed, without costs. ■ ' . 1

¶4Present: Fitzsimots, Coitlaw and McCarthy, JJ.

¶5Order modified as stated in.the opinion, and as modified affirmed,' without costs. " ■ ■ , "

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