82 Ala. 411
Decided December 15, 1886
Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1886-12-15
Tried before the Hon. Leroy F. Box. The appellants in this case, C. J. Cooper & Co., having-obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace against Hayes & Roberts, caused an execution thereon issued to be levied on a barrel of whiskey, as the property of said Hayes & Roberts. A claim to the barrel of whiskey was thereupon interposed by Jacobs & Belsinger, and bond given to try the right of property.
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently November 1914
3 state decisions
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Decided 1886-12-15
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¶1— The execution issued by the justice of the peace, Hilton, was properly excluded from admission in evidence, being void on its face. It fails to show in whose favor it was issued, and amounted to nothing more than a roving commission to any constable of the county to make a certain sum of money out of the goods and chattels of Hayes and Roberts. The indorsement on the back of the execution was no part of it, and can not be looked to in aid of this fatal defect.
¶2Affirmed.