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13 Tenn. 287

Irwin & Vick v. Sanders

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1833

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1833-12-15

On the sixteenth.of October 1829, a warrant issued in favour of Irwin and Vick, against Julius Sanders, to appear before a justice of the peace, &c. Which warrant having been executed and returned, a judgment for the plaintiffs was rendered on the seventh of November 1829; whereupon Sanders appealed to. the circuit court, and executed his bond with Alexander B. Lane, his security, in the penal sum of sixty dollars, to be void on condition he “prosecute” “an appeal by him…

Decided 1833-12-15

Green, J.

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2We think that after the new trial was granted in this cause, it was competent for the court to authorize the amendment of the warrant which was made, and without enquiring into the propriety of the motion to quash the proceedings after a verdict and judgment. We think it was erroneous to quash the proceedings after the amendment was made, and that the judgment must be reversed. But as the warrant was defective when the appeal from the justice was taken, and Lane became the security, and no judgment could rightly have been rendered against the defendant, the making the amendment discharged the security from all further liability. This court, therefore, rendering such judgment as the circuit court ought to have given, direct a judgment to be rendered against Sanders alone, upon the finding of the jury, and discharge the security.

¶3Judgment reversed.

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