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44 N.C. 28

Doe Ex Dem. Brazier v. Thomas

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided December 5, 1852

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1852-12-05

This was an action' of ejectment, tried before his Honor, Judge Dick, at Chatham, on the last Pall Circuit. Held: that as the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions had regularly entered up judgments and granted orders of sale, the Court could not properly go behind said judgments, and hold that there were no levies to authorize said judgments; but must respect them as judgments of a competent tribunal, until they were reversed.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently August 1847

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PeaRSON, J.

¶1 Unless there was a case properly constituted before the County Court, its judgment was a nullity; and the rale of law announced by his Honor had no application. So, the only question is, was the case properly constituted before the County Court 1 The levy imder the executions issued on the 6th of May was waived by the executions issued the 9th of August. These latter executions were not levied. 'What the officer means by saying, “ he adopted the levies already endorsed on the judgments and executions as his, under the last named executions,” is not intelligible. He did not endorse the levies on the executions, and did not reduce them to writing; so, whatever was his mental operation, which he supposes amounted to an adoption of levies, rvhich had been endorsed on executions that had spent their force, and been waived by taking out later executions, there certainly was no levy within the rule established by Dickson v. Peppers, 7 Ire. 429. Consequently the County Court had nothing to act on — there was no case before it — and it had no power to render a judgment and grant an order of sale. So, the principle “ that this Court cannot go behind a judgment of a competent tribunal until it. is reversed,” has no application; for there was no judgment, and the proceeding of the County Court was void and of no effect.

¶2 Per Curiam. Judgment reversed, and venire de novo awarded.

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