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Houck v. Scott

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided June 15, 1838

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1838-06-15

This action -was originally commenced by the plaintiff against the defendant, before a justice o.f the peace, where he obtained a judgment against the defendant. From this judgment, an appeal was taken to the Circuit court of Morgan county. The defendant pleaded in abatement of the suit, that he was a resident freeholder of Limestone county. To this plea, the plaintiff demurred. The court sustained the demurrer, and gave the defendant leave to plead over.

Decided 1838-06-15

ORMOND, J.

¶1— The judgment of the court of respondeat ouster, after sustaining the demurrer of the plaintiff to *170the first plea filed in abatement was correct; but it Was error to permit the defendant to file another plea in abatement. After judgment of respondeat ouster, no other plea in abatement can be allowed —(Cresswell vs. Vaughan, 2 Saunders’ R. 40, 41.) This being the law, the court should have rejected the second plea filed in abatement, which the motion of the plaintiff to strike out was equivalent ■ to, and which should have been granted.

¶2It follows, by necessary consequence, that as the plea Was not authorised, and should have been rejected by the court, that the plaintiff’s demurrer to it should have been sustained.

¶3The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.

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