Section 2.6 Effect of Modification, Vacation, or Reversal of Judgment
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E. (§2.6) Effect of Modification, Vacation, or Reversal of Judgment
When the judgment or decree on which an execution rests is set aside or vacated by the trial court before the judgment becomes final, the execution falls with it. A motion to quash the execution is the proper remedy. Lohmann v. Lohmann, 246 S.W.2d 368 (Mo. App. E.D. 1952). This same principle would apply when an execution is outstanding at the time the judgment that it was issued on is reversed or set aside by an appellate court.
Sometimes a judgment is reversed or set aside on appeal after the judgment debtor's property has been sold under execution. Upon reversal or vacation of the judgment, the appellant is entitled to restitution from the respondent of all benefits acquired on the erroneous judgment during the pendency of appeal. DeMayo v. Lyons, 228 S.W.2d 691 (Mo. 1950); State ex rel. Horine Farms v. Jones, 830 S.W.2d 894 (Mo. App. S.D. 1992); State ex rel. Mo. Highway & Transp. Comm'n v. Wilson, 864 S.W.2d 341 (Mo. App. W.D. 1993). The restitution that the appellant is entitled to is everything that the respondent received as a result of the erroneous judgment. When title to real or personal property is acquired by a party to the action under execution and the judgment is later reversed, the party's title is at an end, and the property must be restored in specie—not the value, but the things themselves. The party entitled to a writ of possession would also be entitled to an accounting of rents and profits or the rental value of the property plus waste or damage to property or crops during the period the property is held by the adverse party. Hurst Automatic Switch & Signal Co. v. Trust Co. of St. Louis County, 236 S.W. 58 (Mo. 1921). But these damages are not open-ended, and neither speculative damages nor attorney fees may generally be recovered. Lancaster v. Simmons, 621 S.W.2d 935, 941 (Mo. App. W.D. 1981). The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Eighth Circuit, in Blackwell v. Lurie (In re Popkin & Stern), 263 B.R. 885 (B.A.P. 8th Cir. 2001), reaffirmed the decision in DeMayo, 228 S.W.2d 691, finding that the judgment debtor is entitled only to restitution equal to the amount received by the plaintiff at sale plus interest and taxable costs. The court deducted from the restitution award the $16,825 commission paid to the sheriff, finding that the plaintiff did not benefit from the money paid to the sheriff.
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- Section 2.1 Introduction
- Section 2.2 Right to Execution
- Section 2.3 Issuance and Direction
- Section 2.4 Form of Request for Issuance of Execution
- Section 2.5 Setting Aside or Quashing Execution
- Section 2.6 Effect of Modification, Vacation, or Reversal of Judgment
- Section 2.7 How Made
- Section 2.8 Personal Property Exempt From Execution
- Section 2.9 Persons Entitled to Exemption Rights
- Section 2.10 Protection and Enforcement of Exemption Rights
- Section 2.11 Form of Notice of Exemptions
- Section 2.12 Claim of Exemption as Head of a Family
- Section 2.13 Delivery Bond
- Section 2.14 Time, Place, and Manner of Sale
- Section 2.15 Form of Notice of Sheriff's Sale
- Section 2.16 Procedure to Assert
- Section 2.17 Form of Notice of Third-Party Claim
- Section 2.18 Generally
- Section 2.19 Priority Between Judgment Creditors
- Section 2.20 Federal Tax Liens
- Section 2.21 What Constitutes a Levy of Real Property
- Section 2.22 Form of Notice of Levy
- Section 2.23 Notice of Issuance of Execution
- Section 2.24 Real Property Exempt From Execution
- Section 2.25 Persons Entitled to Exemption Rights
- Section 2.26 Protection and Enforcement of Exemption Rights
- Section 2.27 Setting Off the Exempt Homestead and Sale of the Surplus
- Section 2.28 Fraudulently Conveyed Property
- Section 2.29 Sale
- Section 2.30 Generally
- Section 2.31 Priority Between Holders of Deeds of Trust
- Section 2.32 Priority Between Judgment Creditors
- Section 2.33 Federal Tax Liens
- Section 2.34 Execution for Possession of Real Property—Writs of Restitution and Possession
- Section 2.35 Judgment Debtor Examination
- Section 2.36 Use Immunity
- Section 2.37 Discovery in Aid of Execution
- Section 2.38 Application of Missouri Law to Discovery Process in Federal Courts Located in Missouri (New Section)
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