27 Del. 432 | Del. Super. Ct. | 1913
delivering the opinion of the court:
In the application by Mr. Tunnell in the case of William T.
In Woolley on Del. Prac. § 1438, citing McDowell v. Simpson, 1 Houst. 467, it is said:
“If the pro-narr fail to correspond with the transcript of the action below, the proper course for the appellant to pursue is not to object by plea in abatement or plea in bar, but to move to set aside the declaration for irregularity; because at law it is the first requisite of a declaration that it shall correspond with the process on which the action is founded, first, in the names of the parties; secondly, in the number of parties; thirdly, in the character or right in which they sue or are sued; and fourthly, in the cause and form of the action; and if it fail to correspond with the process in any of these particulars, the court will, on motion, set it aside for irregularity.
“The transcript filed upon entering an appeal is no part of the pleadings. For the cause of action the court looks only to the plaintiff’s pro-narr. No other issue can be tried than such as is joined upon the allegations in the pro-narr.” * * *
“If the proceeding on appeal does not correspond as to the nature of the claim, or cause of action, with the proceedings below, as shown by the transcript, objection might be taken to this by motion to dismiss the appeal, or other appropriate form of remedy; but not after pleading to issue upon the claim as presented in this
In the present case, the narr. has been pleaded over, issue has been joined, and we think it is now too late to take advantage of the irregularity.
We therefore deny the motion and the case is triable on the issue joined.