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28 How. Pr. 109

Fitgerald v. Blake

New York Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1864

New York Supreme Court · decided 1864-05-15

<p>Where a sheriff receives rents from a defendant’s real property in an attachment suit, the court ponding the litigation, will order the amount thus received to be applied on incumbrances upon the property, where the plaintiff’s security is sufiicient without it.</p>

Decided 1864-05-15

¶1By the court, The plaintiff appeals from an order directing a sum of money now in the hands of the sheriff, derived from the rents of real estate attached under a warrant of attachment issued in this action against the defendant as a non-resident debtor, to be applied to the satisfaction of an outstanding mortgage against one of the houses and lots so attached.

Leonard, J.

¶2The right of the sheriff to collect these rents during the pendency of the litigation herein, to determine the right of the plaintiff to recover the demand alleged to be due from the defendant, has not been disputed. The plaintiff insists that the wife of the defendant is the owner of two of the houses from which some part of the rent was derived. This objection is met by the defendant fully, by obtaining the consent of his ivife in writing, and filing it, to the application of the rent of these houses in the manner asked for by the defendant. I am unable to perceive that the security of the plaintiff will be in any way im*110paired by the application of the rents in the manner asked for, while there will be a continual loss of interest if the money remains uninvested, in the hands of the sheriff.

¶3The order should be affirmed, with $10 costs to the respondent, to await the final judgment in the action.

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