79 Ala. 427 | Ala. | 1885
In Fitzsimmons v. Howard, 69 Ala. 590, speaking of affidavits as a leading process in attachments for rent, we enumerated certain jurisdictional averments, which, we said, the affidavit must contain ; and, failing in either of them, we declared it was not amendable. We added: “An affidavit, wanting in any of these essentials, will be abated on plea.” Among the essentials, we mentioned the enumerated statutory acts of malfeasance by the tenant, which will authorize attachment for rent; the one applicable to this case being, “that the tenant has removed from the premises . . some part of the crop,” &c. The affidavit in this case, on which the attachment was sued out, simply averred, “that, as such tenants, they had removed a portion of the crop grown on said rented premises, without the knowledge or consent of their landlord.” The affidavit in this case fails to come up to statutory requirements; and the omission being jurisdictional, it was not amendable.—Staggers v. Washington, 56 Ala. 225; Flexner v. Dickerson, 65 Ala. 129.
It is contended for appellant, that the error noted above was waived by the appeal taken. This is claimed under section 3121 of the Code of 1876, which provides, that appeals from justices of the peace “must be tried according to equity and justice, without regard to any defect in the summons, or other process before the justice.” This is certainly the rule as to ordinary defenses.—Clough v. Johnson, 9 Ala. 425; Glaze v. Blake, 56 Ala. 379; Perry v. Hurt, 54 Ala. 285; Abrams v. John
We need not consider whether the Circuit Court erred in allowing an amendment of the plea in abatement. It was sufficient without amendment.
Affirmed.