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3 Rob. 102

Newell v. Morton

Supreme Court of Louisiana

Decided October 15, 1842

Supreme Court of Louisiana · decided 1842-10-15

Bullard, J. This suit was commenced by an injunction, to stay proceedings upon executory process issued on a judgment recovered against the plaintiff in the State of Mississippi, on the ground that the judgment creditor had, at the time, an execution issued on his judgment in that State, and levied on property amply sufficient to satisfy the same.

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Decided 1842-10-15

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Bullard, J.

¶1The counsel for the appellant insists that the injunction ought to have been dissolved, it having been shown that the execution in the State of Mississippi had run out. On the other hand, the appellee insists that there is no final judgment, but that the order of the court amounts to nothing more than a continuance until the next term of the court. We cannot but regard this as an interlocutory judgment, pronounced after hearing the parties, and from which an appeal may well lie, because it might operate irreparable injury.

¶2On the merits, the evidence shows that a fieri facias was issued in Mississippi, that several tracts of land were levied on, but that in consequence of two-thirds of the appraised value not having been offered, they remained unsold. But it appears that they were still under seizure, when the 'executory process was issued on the same judgment in this State.

¶3We concur with the District Court that it is oppressive, and against equity to carry on two executions at the same time ; and we think the appellee has no good reason to complain, that the injunction was maintained for six months, especially as the right was reserved to him of showing, at the next term of the District Court, that he had exhausted his remedy in the State of Mississippi.

¶4Judgment affirmed.

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