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67 Ala. 488

Renfro & Andrews v. Willis

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided December 15, 1880

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1880-12-15

Trover for Conversion of Horse. Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Lee. Tried before the Hon. James E. Cobb. Tbe action in this case was commenced on tbe 12th of September, 1878, and was brought by Mary S. Willis as plaintiff. The complaint, as copied in the transcript, was against Forney Benfro as sole defendant, and claimed “ of the defendants $500, as damages for the conversion by them, on the 28th November, 1875,” of a bay mare, the property of tbe plaintiff.

Relies on Savage v. Walshe · Kirby v. State · Grayham v. Roberds

Decided 1880-12-15

STONE, J.

¶1— The present record is confused in its statements. The complaint is against Forney Renfro alone. The summons is against Forney Renfro and Joseph Andrews, styling them partners using the firm name of Renfro & Andrews. The sheriff returned the process executed “by leaving a copy of the within summons and complaint with Forney Renfro and Renfro & Andrews, defendants.” Renfro alone pleaded. The judgment-entry in the margin states the case, “ Mary S. Willis v. Renfro & Andrews,” and recites that the parties came by their attorneys, and renders judgment on verdict against the defendants. We feel bound to hold that Renfro alone was sued, for he alone is mentioned in the complaint. Rendering judgment against the defendants, in the plural, was a clerical misprision in the court below, which would have been corrected on motion in that court. It furnishes no ground for reversal, as the judgment, in legal effect, is, and can only be, against the party sued. Execution can go only against Renfro.— Grayham v. Roberds, 7 Ala. 719; Del Barvo v. Br. Bank, 12 Ala. 238; Savage v. Walshe, 26 Ala. 619.

¶2There are two reasons why we can not consider the demurrer. First, it was interposed after a plea to the merits had been filed; and second, it is no where shown that the Circuit Court ruled on the demurrer.— Gayle v. Smith, Min. 83; Bean v. Chapman, 62 Ala. 55.

¶3Affirmed.

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