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2 Ark. 459

Yeates v. Heard

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided July 15, 1840

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1840-07-15

Heard sued Yeates by petition in debt. Yeates moved to dismiss the suit on the ground that there was no copy of the writing sued on, filed with the petition as required by statute, but the motion was overruled by the court. He then demurred, setting oüt as causes of demurrer, that there was no copy of the instrument sued on filed with the petition; and, that it did not appear that Richard II.

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Dickinson, Judge,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court:

¶2As to the first objection, the plaintiff in error having in his demurrer made the objection to the proceedings, if there was any thing in his motion, he waived it by demurring; and the only question is upon the demurrer.

¶3The petition conforms strictly to the form prescribed in the statute, not only in setting out a copy of the instrument sued upon, but in every other respect; and the other objection, that it does not appear that Richard II. Yeates is the same person who executed the obligation, bearing the signature of R. H. Yeates, we cannot consider as a substantial legal objection; and we so expressly decided in the case of Webb vs. Jones and Prescott, at the present term of this court, when the same question was raised. We consider the petition sufficient for the plaintiff to maintain his action, and that the demurrer was rightly overruled. The judgment is therefore affirmed.

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