6 Mo. 50 | Mo. | 1839
Statement of the case made* and. opinion of the Gofert delivered by
Jameson Samuel & Churchill Samuel, formerly trading under the name and style of Jameson Samuel Co., plaintiff), state that the;, are the legal owner., of a bond, against the defendants, Isaac N. Griffin [signed by said Griffin by the name and description of I. N. Griffin] and Henry Kinote which said note was executed to the said plaintiff by the name and description of Jameson Samuel & Co., and is to the following effect.
Pour months after date*we or either of us do promise to pay Jameson Samuel & Co., the sum of four hundred and seven dollars & 89 cents, for value received bearing ten per cení interest from the date without defalcation or discount, given under our hands and sea’s this 7th day of May 1838. '
J. & I. N. Griffin ns.
II enry Kinote, ns.
Yet the debts remains unpaid &c.
A summons issued on the above, and the return of the officer was that he had executed the writ upon Henry If ¡note, but that Isaac N. Griffin was not found. The record of the same term states, that defendants came by attorney, and filed the:r demurrer to this petition, and also their plea, which demurrer and plea are set forth in so many words in the record. The demurrer .commences “and the said defendants, &c.” and,, proceeds alternately using the singular and plural without much regard either to legal or gram, matical accuracy, and is finally signed by counsel as counsel for defendant and without specifyng the name of the defendant. I notice these inaccuracies, because the question arising in this court has made it material. The plea of non est factum commences also in the plural and is signed for one defendant only, but does not specify for which defendant. At the second term after the return term of the writ, the demurrer was withdrawn, and the cause was submitted to the Court, as a jury, on the issue of non est fae-tmai; and the finding of the Court was that the defendants
The verdict in this case, found by the Court setting as a iuryj was not resPons’-ve to the issue- This might have, been taken advantage of by motion in arrest, but there hav-jng been n0 g^ motion, this Court will not interfere with-the judgment of the Circuit Court. Davidson vs Peck, 4 Mo. Rep. p. 438. Judgment affirmed.