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5 Ark. 166

Walker v. Wills

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided January 15, 1843

Supreme Court of Arkansas · decided 1843-01-15

This was an a'ction of debt, determined in the Monroe Circuit Court in March, 1842, before the Hon. John C. P. Toleeson, one of the Circuit Judges. Wills sued Walker, on a note for $200, payable on demand. Walker pleaded want of consideration. Demurrer to to plea sustained, and leave asked and granted to file a new plea. He then filed an amended plea, which was stricken from the files, and was excepted, but did not embody in his exceptions, the plea stricken out.

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Decided 1843-01-15

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¶1By the Court,

Paschal, J.

¶2The plaintiff excepted, but did not copy the second plea, or so refer to it in any way as to make it a part of his bill of exceptions, or to preserve it on the record. Having therefore abandoned his first plea, and failed to make his second plea stricken from the files, a part of the record, we are left with nothing before us for consideration, but the declaration and the judgment. For although the second plea is copied into the transcript, yet we are not at liberty to consider it. We may passingly remark, however, that were we permitted to adjudicate on both pleas, we should say that they are wholly insufficient in law, to constitute a valid defence.

¶3The record is made to say that, the “defendant agreed in open court that judgment might be rendered against him in this cause.” This is not a confession of judgment, and can only be regarded as a judgment nil dicit.

¶4The question as to interest from date, on a note on demand, was settled by this Court in the case of Pullen vs. Chase, 4 Ark. Rep. 210.

¶5The judgment is in strict form, and for the correct amount, and the error as to interest, if any there was, has been cured by remittitur.

¶6Judgment affirmed.

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