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5 Blackf. 60

Wooster v. Lyons

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 30, 1838

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1838-11-30

<p>If a person execute a written promise by a wrong name, he must be sued on the instrument in that name.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently December 1876

1 state decisions

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Decided 1838-11-30

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Dewey, J.

¶1Assumpsit. The declaration alleges that the defendant, “ by the name and description of Moses Ons,” executed his promissory note, &c. General demurrer to the declaration, and joinder. The Circuit Court sustained the demurrer, and rendered judgment for the defendant.

¶2This decision was right. If a person execute a written promise by a wrong name, he must be sued in that name.

¶3To declare against him in his true name, averring that he *61executed the instrument by the untrue description is erroneous. If to a suit against him in his assumed name he plead a misnomer, the replication may state the facts, and it will be sustained by the production of the instrument executed in the name in which he is sued. Field v. Winlow, Cro. Eliz. 897.—Gould v. Barnes, 3 Taunt. 504.—1 Chitt. Pl. 279.—1 Stark. Ev. 413.

C. H. Test, for the plaintiff.J. Perry, for the defendant.Per Curiam.

¶4The judgment is affirmed with costs.

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