Rose v. Ingram
Decision Date | 15 November 1884 |
Docket Number | 11,239 |
Citation | 98 Ind. 276 |
Parties | Rose et al. v. Ingram |
Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
From the Clark Circuit Court.
A Dowling and J. K. Marsh, for appellants.
J. G Howard, J. F. Read and M. Z. Stannard, for appellee.
Appellee sued appellants to amend an execution by attaching the seal to it, and to quiet his title to certain real estate purchased thereunder.
A demurrer was overruled to the complaint; there was a trial by the court, finding for the plaintiff, and, over a motion for a new trial, judgment was rendered on the finding.
The errors assigned are the overruling of the demurrer to the complaint, and overruling motion for a new trial.
The first objection made to the complaint is that it shows that the execution, without a seal, was void, and not amendable and in support thereof we are referred to the case of Ins. Co. v. Hallock, 6 Wall. 556, wherein it was held that a copy of an order of foreclosure, without a seal, under the statute of Indiana, was void, and conferred no authority upon the sheriff to sell.
There was no question as to amendment in that case, and, indeed, if the instrument was absolutely void, there need have been no question as to amendment, for a void instrument is not amendable. Considerable confusion has crept into the books, and even in some of our own reports, over the use of the words "void" and "voidable." But upon this question, in this State, we think the current of authority is in favor of holding that the execution was voidable, and not void.
In the case of Doe v. Rue, 4 Blackf. 263, it was held that an execution was amendable after service.
In the case of Hunter v. Burnsville Turnpike Co., 56 Ind. 213, it was held that an execution without a seal was voidable, not void, and might be amended after a sale under it. In the opinion the following language is used: See the authorities therein cited.
In the case of Doe v. Dutton, 2 Ind. 309, it was held that an execution merely voidable may be set aside on motion of the defendant, but, if not so set aside, all acts done under it are valid, and this language was approvingly quoted, and the same doctrine reaffirmed, in the case of Sowle v. Champion, 16 Ind. 165. The case of Sidener v. Columbus, etc., Turnpike Co., 56 Ind. 598, was decided in the same way and upon the authority of Hunter v. Burnsville Turnpike Co., supra.
In the case of Jones v. Carnahan, 63 Ind. 229, on p. 234, it is said that
In the case of Reily v. Burton, 71 Ind. 118, the decision in the case of Hunter v. Burnsville Turnpike Co., supra, is again...
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