27 Miss. 744 | Miss. | 1854
delivered the opinion of the court.
Exception was taken to the rulings of the court on the trial upon several points, which are assigned for error here, and which we will proceed to notice.
First. In support of the issue, the plaintiff below offered in evidence a duly authenticated transcript of the record of the judgment sued on, to which the defendant objected, and the objection was overruled. The grounds of objection are, 1st, that the judgment sued on was rendered against the defendants as partners, and this suit is against them as individuals, which is alleged to be a variance. This objection is untenable. After the judgment was rendered, it affected them as individuals; and so far as the rights of the plaintiff were concerned, it was immaterial whether they were described as partners or not in this suit, as a judgment against them as individuals would bind both the individual and partnership property. The description of the persons in the first suit was, therefore, unnecessary in the present action.
Secondly. It was objected that'the transcript was uncertain and contradictory, in one part showing that the judgment was. rendered against Rhea, one of the defendants in this action,, and in another part omitting Rhea as a defendant, and containing the name of Charles Cooper in the place of it. The record' of the judgment is regular, and shows that Rhea was a defendant. It is only in the executions issued upon it, and which are-included in the transcript offered in evidence, that the variance appears. The executions are not properly a part of the record' of the judgment, and the variance was, therefore, immaterial to-the purposes of this suit.
Thirdly. It appeared by the transcript, that there was no service of process upon the defendant Stephens, and that he did! not appear or plead to the action. The record of the judgment.
Fourth. It is insisted that the judgment is erroneous, because the transcript of the record offered in evidence shows that executions in Alabama were levied upon personal property of the defendants, which is not shown to have been .disposed of; that this was in law a satisfaction of the judgment, and under the averment in the declaration, that the judgment remained unsatisfied, that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. But this cannot avail the plaintiff in error, as the case is presented by the record, because the only issue made was under the plea of nul tiel record, which presented the sole question whether there was such a j udgment as that declared on. Under that issue, it
The last error assigned is, that the judgment is for a greater amount than the evidence warrants.. The case appears to have been submitted to a jury to assess the damages for the detention of the debt, who found damages to the amount of the interest due upon the judgment. The judgment was rendered for the amount of debt and costs in the original judgment, and the cost of the transcript of the judgment used in evidence on the trial, and the damages assessed by the jury. It would have been more formal and regular to include the costs of the transcript in the damages assessed by the jury, instead of making it part of the debt. But the plaintiff in error was justly charge-, able with it, and it is not sufficient ground to reverse the judgment, that he is charged with it as part of the original judgment, and not as part of the damages.
The judgment is affirmed.