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22 Tenn. 313

Barry v. Patterson

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1842

Tennessee Supreme Court · decided 1842-12-15

This case was brought up, from the circuit court of Sumner county, by writ of error. See McCarroll vs Weeks, 2 Ten. Rep. 215, Hamilton vs. Burum, 3 Yerg. 335,. Porter vs. Webb Co. 4 Yerg. 161. I admit it is a rule, that the record must recite all the material facts necessary to give the court jurisdiction. Is not that done here?

Decided 1842-12-15

GREEN, J.

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2In this casé judgment was rendered in the court below, on motion, against Reuben T. Warner, a constable, for $214 22, collected by him as constable, and also against Thomas Barry and Jacob L. Warner, for the same amount; but why it was rendered against the two latter persons, the record no where indicates. It is no where in the record of the judgment said that they were securities of the constable, a fact which must be *315stated to have appeared to the court, in order to render them liable as such. The court could have no jurisdiction over them unless that fact existed, and it is a rule, in these summary proceedings, that every fact, necessary to give jurisdiction, must be set out in the judgment, as existing.

¶3The judgment must be reversed, and the plaintiff in error, Barry, (who alone has prosecuted this writ of error,) may go hence.

¶4Note. — See Jones vs. Read, 1 Hum. 335.

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