...sold for, and if there had been a sale, plaintiff would have been entitled to receive nothing, and so was not damnified, and the defendant might have returned " nulla bona"; and the judge quashed the scire facias, from which judgment the plaintiff appealed.
Boyden for plaintiff.
J. T. Morehead for defendant.
1. A return by...entitled to a priority over Buckley's; for which reason the sheriff might properly have returned nulla bona. The court, therefore, quashed the scire facias, and Buckley appealed.
The decision was, in our opinion, erroneous, and must be reversed. His Honor, we think, mistook the question in the case. It was not what return the...false, and, if false, leave it to the party injured to seek his redress by an action. But the sheriff did not return nulla bona. On the contrary, he returned goods subject to older executions...