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25 Miss. 228

Kingkendall v. Perry

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided October 15, 1852

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1852-10-15

In error from the circuit court of Panola county; Hon. Hugh R. Miller, judge. This was an action instituted in the circuit court of Panola county, by Pearce W. Perry, administrator de bonis non of the goods, chattels, rights, and credits which were of Simon Perry, deceased, against Jadob Kingkendall, James H. Dyson, and John Rayburn, to recover the amount (less credits) due on a writing obligatory, in these words: “ Oct. 7th, 1850. “ $786.

Decided 1852-10-15

Mr. Justice Yerger

¶1delivered the opinion of the court:

¶2This was an action of debt upon a bond. The defendants' craved oyer, and demurred because of a variance between the bond described in the declaration and that set out on oyer. The variance is said to consist in this, to wit: The plaintiff sues as administrator de bonis non, Ace., of Simon Perry, deceased, and avers that the defendants executed their bond “ payable to him as administrator as aforesaid, by name of P. W. Perry or.*230order;” whereas the bond read on oyer is payable “to P. W. Perry, administrator of Simon Perry, deceased, or order.”

¶3As the declaration does not pretend to set out the bond “ in hcec verba,” but only according to its tenor and effect, it might be questioned whether, even by the strict technical rules of common law pleading, the demurrer could be sustained. But when it is recollected, that this suit was instituted since the act of March 9th, 1850, went into effect, and in accordance with its provisions, we cannot sustain the demurrer unless we disregard the plain requisitions of the 7th, 11th, and 15th sections of that statute.

¶4The judgment of the court below must be affirmed.

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