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59 Ala. 341

Grady v. Hall

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1877

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1877-12-15

Tried before the Hon. W. L. Whitlock. This suit was begun by James Hall, at the fall term, 1876, of the Circuit Court of Etowah county, to recover damages for the breach of an attachment bond made by Mary Grady, Elizabeth Grady, J. C. Abney and A. J. Blair.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1886

1 state decisions

Relies on Gafford v. Stearns · Watson v. Auerbach · McKinney v. Benagh

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Decided 1877-12-15

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STONE, J.—

¶1The instrument brought to view in the bill of exceptions, given by appellees to appellant, and bearing date December 28, 1874, conforms to the requirements of section 3286 of the Code of 1876; and being recorded in the county within sixty days after its execution, is a “ lion on the crop, and on stock bought with the money, or advanced.” And the person thus advancing is armed with the right to sue out attachment to enforce this lien, co-oxtensive with the right of landlords to sue out such process for the collection of rent.—Code of 1876, §§ 3288, 3472; Watson v. Auerbach, 57 Ala. 353.

¶2This lien, being conferred by the statute and the contract, is not destroyed or impaired by the fact that the same instrument contains a mortgage on the same property, to secure the same debt. Each of the securities can stand, and they are not incompatible; but a resort to one would render it improper to resort to the other at the same time, .for the purpose of subjecting the same property to the payment of the debt.—See Gafford v. Stearns, 51 Ala. 434; McKinney v. Benagh, 48 Ala. 358.

¶3The rulings of the Circuit Court are in conflict with these views, and it follows that the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

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