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52 Miss. 424

McMahon v. Webb

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1876

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1876-04-15

Erroe to the Circuit Court of Lincoln 'Count}1-, lion. J. M. Smiley, Judge. The original declaration was filed on the injunction bond by Thomas McMahon and Kate, his wife, and Henry O’Hara, all obligees in the bond. The defendants pleaded nil debit.

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Decided 1876-04-15

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Chalmers, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the court.

¶2The amended declaration was in the name of Kate McMahon, with whom was joined her husband, for conformity, upon an injunction bond jointly made to the said wife and husband and one O’Hara.

¶3Tlie declaration undertook to account for the non-joinder of «O’Hara as a plaintiff by sotting forth special circumstances to show that he had no interest. On the trial the bond was ruled •out, because payable to three and sued on by but one.

¶4There was judgment for defendants. The error assigned is "the exclusion of the bond as testimony. There was no error, in this. An action by one obligee cannot be supported by the proof of a bond pajmble jointly to three, nor is it admissible to escape this rule by the mode of declaring here adopted. The suit should have been by all the obligees, or in the name •of all for the use of one. O’Hara could not refuse or prevent the use of his name. 1 Chit. PL, §§ 8, 9, 10.

¶5*426The judgment here, caused by a variance, will not bar a. suit properly brought hereafter.

¶6Affirmed.

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