{ "id": 1561123, "name": "Peery v. Mauldin", "name_abbreviation": "Peery v. 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W. 702", "category": "reporters:state_regional", "reporter": "N.W.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "6 Ark. 454", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "opinion_index": 0 }, { "cite": "64 Ark. 205", "category": "reporters:state", "reporter": "Ark.", "case_ids": [ 1907332 ], "opinion_index": 0, "case_paths": [ "/ark/64/0205-01" ] } ], "analysis": { "cardinality": 371, "char_count": 5927, "ocr_confidence": 0.477, "pagerank": { "raw": 4.03580807328026e-08, "percentile": 0.058347996350366374 }, "sha256": "0d0ca394cb6a84e9c9ef7edd1c24f3d6209b108390c224507b549fbed0ff8bdd", "simhash": "1:ec3699ac0480a561", "word_count": 1063 }, "last_updated": "2023-07-14T19:47:48.789730+00:00", "provenance": { "date_added": "2019-08-29", "source": "Harvard", "batch": "2018" }, "casebody": { "judges": [], "parties": [ "Peery v. Mauldin." ], "opinions": [ { "text": "Hart, J.\nit. E. Peery instituted this action against S. D. Mauldin under 'Section 3286 of Kirby\u2019s Digest to recover $141.11 for the alleged negligent failure to levy an execution and for the alleged failure to return the same within the time prescribed by law. The facts are as follows:\nR. E. Peery sued R. E. Mangrum before H. C. Hall, justice of the peace, and recovered judgment for the amount sued for. Hall issued an execution on the judgmentment and placed it in the hands of the defendant S. D. Mauldin as constable of Chickasawba Township, Mississippi County, Arkansas. The execution was issued on April 14, 1914, and the following return is endorsed on it:\n\u201cThis writ came to hand on the 17th day of April, 1914, -and I 'have duly served the same by showing and reading to R. E. Mangrum and now return this execution with stay bond filed April 29, 1914. S. D. Mauldin, Constable. \u2019 \u2019\nHall, the justice of the peace before whom the case was tried, testified that he had no recollection of the execution being returned, but knew that it must have been returned because he found it in the pigeon-hole of his desk five Qr six days before the trial; that he remembered filling out a blank stay bond at the request of S. D. Maul-din, the constable, and either at that time, or sometime afterwards, copied \u00a1the endorsement of costs as they appear on the back of the stay bond.\nThe endorsement referred to shows a fee of seventy-five cents for approving the stay bond. The constable had approved it and had charged and was allowed a fee of seventy-five cents for doing so.\nThe justice further stated that he never issued any certificate that a stay bond had been taken to anybody and that he had no recollection of seeing the bond after the constable asked him to draw it up for him; and that the bond was never filed with him.\nThe stay bond was executed by B. E. Mangrum and Mack Bogers and there appears upon it the following endorsement: \u201cApproved this. April 29, 1914, S. D. Maul-din, Constable.\u201d There also appears, among other things, the following item of cost: \u201cTaking stay bond, seventy-five cents.\u201d\nThe court found in favor of the defendant Mauldin and the plaintiff Peery has appealed.\nThe judgment of the circuit court was right. It sufficiently appears from the return made by the constable that the execution was returned within the time prescribed by law. The return of the officer shows that the execution with the stay bond attached thereto was returned to the justice of the peace who issued the execution on April ,29, 1914. The execution was delivered to the constable on the 17th day of April, 1914, and was found among the official papers of the justice of the peace. We are of the opinion that this is sufficient to show that the constable returned the execution within thirty days from the date of its issuance by delivering it to the justice of the peace by whom it was issued, See Loveless v. State, 64 Ark. 205.\nThe complaint alleges that the constable failed to levy the execution upon the property of the defendant in execution, but does not 'allege that the defendant in execution had property at the time upon which to make the levy. There is nothing in the record which tends to show that the defendant in execution was possessed of any kind of property which the constable could have seized under execution. In order to enable the plaintiff to .recover it was incumbent upon him to prove that during the life of the writ of execution his debtor was possessed of .property liable to 'be seized under the writ and that the constable neglected to seize said property. State v. Kirby, 6 Ark. 454; Conway v. Magill (Neb.) 73 N. W. 702; Stevenson v. Judy, 49 Mo. 227; Smith v. Heineman, 118 Ala. 195, 24 So. 364; Phelps v. Cutler, 4 Gray (Mass.) 137.\nIt follows that the judgment must be affirmed.", "type": "majority", "author": "Hart, J." } ], "attorneys": [ "Appellant, pro se.", "W. D. Gravette, for appellees." ], "corrections": "", "head_matter": "Peery v. Mauldin.\nOpinion delivered October 25, 1915.\n1. Executions \u2014 return by constable \u2014 proof.-\u2014Where the records of a justice of the -peace show that an execution was delivered to the constable -on a certain date, and was thereafter found, within thirty days, among the-official papers of the justice, the proof will be held sufficient to show that the constable returned ithe execution within thirty -days from the date of -its issuance, by delivering it to the justice -of the peace by whom it was issued.\n2. Executions- \u2014 failure to make levy \u2014 liability of constable. \u2014 In order -for -a plaintiff to recover from a -constable under Kirby\u2019s Digest, \u00a7 3286, for failure to make a levy up-on defendant\u2019s property .pursuant to an execution -issued, plaintiff must prove that during the life -of -the writ of execution that his debtor was possessed -of property liable to be seized under the writ and that the constable neglected to seize the said property.\nAppeal -from Mississippi Circuit Court; Chickasawba District; J. F. Gcmtney, Judge;\naffirmed.\nAppellant, pro se.\n1. No levy was made according to law. Bouvier Law Diet., \u201cLevy\u201d; Words and Phrases, p. 4104; 5 Ark. 377; 29 Id. 277.\n2. No -legal -and valid return of the execution was made. 60 Ark. 185; 118 Ark. 349; Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a7 \u00a7 4620-4621.\n3. Appellee had no right to take and approve the bond. Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a74620: 70 Ark. 54; 35 Cyc. 1711-1712; 5 Cyc. 546; 62 Ark. 135; 34 Id. 530; 35 Cyc. 753; 82 Ark. 414; Freeman on Ex. (2 -ed.) \u00a7 32, -p. 72.\n4. The bond was never filed. It bore- no file mark. No certificate -of -s-tay was is-sued. Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a7 \u00a7 4629, 4668-4669.\nW. D. Gravette, for appellees.\n1. The findings of fact by the judge are conclusive. 68 Ark. 83; 66 Id. 53; 102 Id. 200; 103 Id. 61; 79 Id. 608.\n2. No levy was necessary as a stay bond was given. Kirby\u2019s Dig., \u00a7\u00a7 4620, 4621, 4622, 3237 ; 28 Ark. 35; 49 Id. 58. The execution was a lien.\n3. The return is conclusive. 60 Ark. 185; 23 Id. 268. The constable performed his \u00abduty. The failure of the justice to filo 'did not render the constable liable. 64 Ark. 205." }, "file_name": "0422-01", "first_page_order": 446, "last_page_order": 449 }