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        "text": "Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice.\nFrom a judgment in favor of plaintiffs-appellees, the defendant-appellant brings this appeal. Two matters occurring in the litigation are now urged for reversal.\nIn 1958 Bates Motor Company (a partnership composed of appellees, Messrs. Bates and Freeman) sold a power unit to the appellant, O. 0. Mainprize. Part of the purchase price was paid in cash, and the unpaid balance of $1,150.32 was secured by a chattel mortgage on the power unit. Bates Motor Company was in business in Arkansas; and Mainprize lived in Missouri; so the chattel mortgage was on a Missouri form and was duly recorded in that State.\nMr. Mainprize made several payments on the secured indebtedness and also had repair work done from time to time on the power unit. Mr. Mainprize returned the power unit to Bates Motor Company, but without giving any explanation mutually understood between the parties. \u2022 After some delay, Bates Motor Company sold the power unit at advertised sale under claimed provisions of the chattel mortgage; and on June 1, 1961, Bates Motor Company filed this action against Main-prize for the claimed balance due of $667.67.\nBy answer, Mainprize denied owing any balance on the power unit; and by cross complaint sought $3,-000.00 damages for breach of express and implied warranties in regard to the power unit. For reasons best known to the parties, the cause was not tried until October 22, 1964, when it was presented to the Circuit Judge sitting as a jury. The main issue in the trial related to alleged defects in the power unit and to Main-prize\u2019s claim for breach of warranty. The Circuit Court judgment was in favor of appellees, Bates et al, for the amount sued for; and on this appeal only two points are urged by the appellant:\n\u201cI. The Court erred in refusing to quash the writs of garnishment.\n\u201cII. The Court erred in refusing to hold the sale void because the appellee did not have the property appraised. \u2019 \u2019\nI.\nThe Garnishment Matter. The first point relates to the refusal of the Court to quash certain writs of garnishment. The following schedule of dates gives the background for appellant\u2019s insistence on this point:\n6/1/61 Original complaint filed and summons issued. Service Avas obtained in Missouri on July 20, 1961.\n6/1/61 Allegations and interrogatories filed and garnishment issued on Cherokee Village Company. The garnishee ansAvered on August 2, 1961.\n7/18/61 Allegations and interrogatories filed and garnishment issued against Hidden Valley Company; and this garnishee ansAvered on August 28, 1961.\n1/1/62 The service on defendant of the original summons of June 1, 1961 was quashed because there had been much delay in obtaining service.\n1/2/62 New summons issued against defendant, and served on January 19, 1962.\n3/29/62 Defendant, saving his objections, filed answer and counter-claim.\n4/3/63 Defendant moved that the writs of garnishment against Cherokee Village and Hidden Valley Company be quashed because the service of summons of 6/1/61 on defendant had been quashed.\n2/5/65 Judgment rendered, reciting as to the writs of garnishment, \u201cand plaintiffs are authorized to proceed under the garnishments as issued herein toward satisfaction of the recovery herein. \u2019 \u2019\nThe appellant insists that since the service on him of the summons of June 1, 1961 was quashed, therefore the writs of garnishment issued on June 1, 1961 and July 18,1961 should likewise be quashed. In other words, the position of the defendant is that until he was validly served with process, no writ of garnishment could be validly served. We find no merit in this point. Our statute on the commencing of a cause of action (Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 27-301 [ftepl. 1962]) reads in part: \u201cA civil action is commenced by filing in the office of the clerk of the proper court a complaint and causing a summons to be issued thereon, and placed in the hands of the sheriff of the proper county or counties.\u201d Thus, on June 1, 1961, when Bates et al filed this action against Mainprize and placed the summons in the hands of the officer, the action was \u201ccommenced.\u201d\nOur statute on garnishment before judgment (Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7 31-501 [Repl. 1962]) says in part: \u201cIn all cases where any plaintiff may begin an action in any court of record .... and such plaintiff shall have reason to believe that any other person is indebted to the defendant .... such plaintiff may sue out a writ of garnishment . . . .\u201d The writ of garnishment before judgment may be sued out \u201cin all cases where any plaintiff may begin an action.\u201d Bates et al began their action on June 1, 1961, and they could obtain a writ of garnishment on that date or thereafter. There is no question in this case as to the allegations, bonds, interrogatories, etc. regarding the garnishment. The sole insistence of the appellant is that when the Court quashed the service obtained on the defendant of the summons dated June 1, 1961, such quashing ipso facto rendered the writs of garnishment void.\nWe find no merit in this contention. Our case of Roach v. Henry, 186 Ark. 884, 56 S. W. 2d 577, is in point. In that case, action was filed and summons issued against the defendant on September 6, 1932. Personal service could not be obtained on the defendant so a warning order was issued at a subsequent date. A writ of garnishment was issued and served on September 6, .1932, before the warning order was issued. We held that the failure to obtain personal service on the defendant on September 6, 1932 did not render void the writ of garnishment, saying: \u201cThe mere fact that the defendant was not served would not render the garnishment void.\u201d\nII.\nThe Matter Of Appraisement. As previously mentioned, Mr. Mainprize-returned the power unit to Bates et at without any explanation being mutually understood between the parties. Bates et at, purporting to act under the chattel mortgage, sold the power unit for $525.00 and credited that amount on what was due to Bates et al by Mainprize. With the said credit allowed, this action was filed against Mainprize for $667.67 for balance claimed due on the mortgage indebtedness, plus also an unpaid open account.\nIn the course of the trial Mr. Bates testified, without objection, as to how this balance of $667.67 was calculated. The existence of the chattel mortgage under which Bates acted was not questioned. Its terms were not denied, and it was not thought to be of sufficient importance to be introduced in evidence. Mr. Bates testified that he posted notices of the proposed sale of the power unit, and Mr. Mainprize admitted that he was told of the sale. There was some slight evidence by Mr. Bates that \u201cour shop appraised it\u201d (referring to the power unit). As to whether there was any formal appraisement, and as to whether the Missouri mortgage required any formal appraisement, are matters that were not considered important. The Trial Court found \u201cthat in January 1960, plaintiffs, after having advertised and giving notice of intention to do so, sold the said unit under the aforesaid \u2018Missouri mortgage\u2019 for $525.00, defendant being aware of the pendency and time of said sale; . . . .\u201d\nNow, on appeal, the appellant claims that in selling the power unit under the mortgage Bates did not comply with Ark. Stat. Ann. \u00a7\u00a7 51-1112 et seq. (1947) as regards appraisal and sale of property under- a mortgage. This point appears to us to be an afterthought. The big issue in the Trial Court was the warranty of the power unit. No one seemed to have even regarded the provisions of the mortgage to be of any importance. The parties selected the issues in the trial below; and we cannot here retry the case on other issues.\nAffirmed.\nThe Ford Motor Company was named as a cross-defendant, but there is nothing in the record to show any service on that Company; and the Ford Motor Company is not listed in the judgment as ever having been a party to the litigation.",
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        "author": "Ed. F. McFaddin, Justice."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Hodges & Hodges, for appellant.",
      "Gus Causbie, for appellee."
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    "head_matter": "Mainprize v. Bates\n5-3765\n398 S. W. 2d 894\nOpinion delivered February 14, 1966\nHodges & Hodges, for appellant.\nGus Causbie, for appellee."
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