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2 Abb. Pr. 155

Fellerman's Case

New York Supreme Court

Decided September 15, 1855

New York Supreme Court · decided 1855-09-15

<p>EXAMINATION OS' JUDGMENT DEBTOR.-SECOND EXECUTION.</p> <p>Issuing a second execution is not a waiver of supplementary proceedings commenced against the defendant under a prior execution returned unsatisfied.</p>

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1899

5 state decisions

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Decided 1855-09-15

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ClerKe, J.

¶1Contrary to my first impressions, I now think that the issuing of a second execution is not a waiver of supplementary proceedings commenced against the defendant after the return of the first execution. These proceedings are a substitute for the creditor’s bill, and are merely auxiliary to the ordinary legal method of enforcing the satisfaction of a judgment. To be sure the Code, like the former law, contemplates that the ordinary remedy should be exhausted before recourse shall be had in the first instance, to the supplemental remedy, and for this reason requires that an execution shall be returned unsatisfied, or that, after an execution has been issued, the defendant has property which he unjustly refuses to apply to the satisfaction of the judgment. But this is not inconsistent with the right after supplementary proceedings are commenced also to issue another execution, if the judgment can be more readily or effectually satisfied.

¶2After filing a creditor’s bill under the old system, the complainant might in this way take out a new execution upon his *156judgment, and levy upon the property of the defendant. ' And should such property be insufficient to satisfy his judgment, he would have been compelled to elect either to dismiss his bill or abandon his execution. In the case of Sale v. Lawson, (4 Sand. S. C. R., 718), decided March 20th, 1852, it was held in the Superior Court, that these rules of the Court of Chancery were as applicable to the examination of a debtor under the Code, as to the proceeding by a creditor’s bill.

¶3In this view I am inclined to concur.

¶4Motion to dismiss order denied, without costs.

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