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53 Cal. 433

Richards v. Kirkpatrick

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1879

California Supreme Court · decided 1879-07-01

<p>Appeal from the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District, County of Mariposa.</p> <p>Bill to obtain an injunction restraining a Constable’s sale of personal property on execution. The Court overruled a general demurrer to the bill, and denied a motion to dissolve the injunction granted in pursuance of the prayer of the bill. Defendant appealed. The other facts are stated in the opinion.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently June 1895

2 state decisions

Relies on Leach v. Day · Rahm v. Minis

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Decided 1879-07-01

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By the Court, Rhodes, J.:

¶1One of the defendants, Olcese, having obtained a judgment against Ivy, caused an execution to be issued, and the other defendant, as a Constable, levied the execution upon the personal property in controversy, as the property of Ivy, and is about to sell the same in satisfaction of the execution. Two days after the levy, the plaintiff commenced an action of claim and delivery against the Constable for the recovery of the property, and, as alleged in the complaint in this action, process was issued, by virtue of which the Sheriff took possession of the property. This action was instituted to restrain the sale of the property under the execution above mentioned, and was brought two days after the action of claim and delivery.

¶2A party is not entitled to an injunction in a case where he has a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy at law. (Leach v. Day, *43527 Cal. 643; Rahm v. Minis, 40 Cal. 421.) No reason is given why the plaintiff could not obtain all the relief to which he is entitled in the pending action of claim and delivery. While the property is held by the Sheriff under the process in that action the Constable cannot sell it, and should the property be redelivered by the Sheriff to the Constable upon his execution of the statutory undertaking, that undertaking is presumptively sufficient protection to the plaintiff should he recover a judgment in that action.

¶3Order reversed and cause remanded.

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