Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

59 Ill. 62

Gold v. Johnson

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided June 15, 1871

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1871-06-15

Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lawrence county: the Hon. K.. S. Canby, Judge, presiding. This was an action of ejectment, brought by Gold against Johnson, to recover certain premises. A trial by jury resulted in a verdict for the defendant. A new trial being awarded, the defendant again recovered a verdict, upon which the court entered judgment. The plaintiff brings the record to this court.

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Decided 1871-06-15

How this case has been cited

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1904

5 state decisions

201871188018901900decided

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

View the full empirical analysis of this case →

Mr. Justice Sheldon

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court:

¶2Objections were taken to the validity of the plaintiff’s title in this case, derived under a sheriff’s sale on execution, that the collection of the judgment on which the execution issued, was enjoined when the sale was made, and that a prior execution had been levied on real estate, which levy still subsisted.

¶3It is sufficient to say of the first objection, that we do not find it to be founded in fact.

¶4■ The writ of injunction was served in June or July of 1857, the injunction suit was continued from term to term, until the September term, 1862, when the following order was made: “ Ordered that this cause go off the docket.”

¶5The execution under which the sale was made, was issued on the 14th day of March, 1867, and sale made on the 13th of April following.

¶6The order striking the ease from the docket, acquiesced in as it was by the complainant, with no attempt to reinstate the case, was a virtual dissolution of the injunction.

¶7As to the second objection, a "levy of an execution on real estate of value sufficient to satisfy it, does not, like a levy on personal property, operate while the levy is undisposed of as such a satisfaction of the judgment, as would be a bar to any attempt to enforce the collection of the judgment in any other way. Gregory et al. v. Stark et al. 3 Scam. 611. The circumstance, that a prior execution had been levied on other real estate, does not affect the validity of the plaintiff’s title.

¶8The first, third and fourth instructions, asked by the plaintiff and refused by the court, asserted the views here expressed.

¶9The first and third instructions given for the defendant, were in denial of them.

¶10In the refusing and giving of these instructions, there was error.

¶11The alleged variances and omissions in the judgment, execution, and sheriff’s deed, urged by the defendant in error, are immaterial.

¶12The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶13Judgment reversed.

/59/ill/62 · .json · Public domain