Dusenberry v. Black

SAYRE, J. At the suit of appellee a writ of attachment was levied on the relic of an automobile, some plantation stock, and corn. Appellants interposed a claim. The trial court, hearing the ease without a jury, found with plaintiff that the property levied upon was the property of defendant and liable to the satisfaction of plaintiff’s debt. The single proposition urged in the brief for claimants, appellants, is that there was no evidence to sustain the judgment rendered. Plaintiff’s evidence was ample to show that defendant had been and was at the time of the levy in possession and control of the property levied upon, and at other times claimed to own the same and exercised customary acts of ownership. This, to say the least, sufficed to shift to claimants the burden of establishing their right. Wollner & Lowenstein v. Lehman Durr & Co., 85 Ala. 274, 4 South. 643; Jones v. Franklin, 81 Ala. 161, 1 South. 199. Defendant testified that in his possession and control of the property he acted merely as agent for his sister, one of the claimants, who, he said, owned a 95 per cent, interest in the property and the other claimants, but the claimants did not appear as witnesses. Various considerations affecting the credibility of defendant’s testimony appeared in evidence, and we are by no means satisfied that the trial court committed error in giving judgment as it did. Affirmed. ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and MILLER, JJ., concur.