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1 How. App. Cas. 595

Cornes v. Harris

New York Court of Appeals

Decided January 15, 1848

New York Court of Appeals · decided 1848-01-15

Harris sued Cornes in the supreme court by writ of nuisance in the following form :— “ The People of the State of New- York to the Sheriff of the county of Oneida, greeting: — Whereas, Oliver Harris hath complained to us that George Cornes unjustly has raised a certain slaughter-house and divers cattle-pens, sheep-pens, calf-pens, and hog-pens, in the town of Sangerfield, in your county, to the nuisance of the freehold of the said Oliver Harris: We do therefore command you,…

Decided 1848-01-15

¶1Decision—judgment affirmed, unanimously.

¶2Note.—Bronson, Judge, delivered the opinion of the court, and held, that it Was an action on the case. That it was not necessary to mention the form of the action in the commencement of the declaration; that was determined by the matter contained in the declaration—not by the name which the plaintiff might give it.

¶3As to the writ. It was of no importance how the defendant came into court. It was enough that he appeared and pleaded to the declaration in an action of which the court had jurisdiction. He could not afterward object, that he was not regularly brought into court, or that the declaration varied from the process.

¶4Reported 1 Comstock, 223.

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