Monarch v. Dean

Opinion by Judge Hargis: The Gen. Stats. (1881), Ch. 66, Art. 2, § 16, provides: “If the property be taken under execution or attachment, the officer shall, out of the proceeds of the property found upon the leased premises, and levied on or taken by him, make payment of the rent payable in money, due and to become due, for the year in which the levy is made, unless a bond of indemnity be executed.” It was held by this court in the case of Stone v. Bohm Bros. & Co., 79 Ky. 141, 2 Ky. L. 40, that the property being removed from the leased premises, and sold to an innocent purchaser before the expiration of fifteen days from the removal, the title passed to the purchaser and the landlord’s lien could not be enforced against the property. The authorities were fully reviewed in that case and the principle then established is applicable to this case. When the appellant, without notice of the landlord’s lien, bought the horse at the execution sale conducted by the sheriff the title passed to him and it became the sheriff’s duty to pay [597] to the appellee, Dean, the rent, or so much of it as the proceeds of the sale would extinguish. It was not, therefore, necessary, or proper, for the appellant to have made his answer a cross-petition against the execution plaintiff, Bosley, or the sheriff, Gates, as neither of them were responsible to him for the application of the proceeds of the sale. This defense was complete as to the proceedings instituted by Dean to enforce his lien for rent. Williams & Powers, for appellant. J. A. Dean, for appellees. The cross-petition of Dean against the sheriff and Bosley should not have been dismissed, as he was entitled to the sum for which the horse was sold to appellant. The bond for the purchase-money having been taken payable to Bosley he was a proper party to Dean’s cross-action, which in legal effect is the same as a rule and 'Should be so treated. Besides, it is a proper supplemental pleading by which the proceeds of the property sold to the appellant may be brought into court. The judgment is reversed and cause remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.