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8 Port. 467

Moore v. Philips

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 15, 1839

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1839-01-15

.Assumpsit on note, tried before Shortridge, J. On the the twenty-sixth of September, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the defendant in error caused to be • issued against the plaintiff, from, the clerk of the Circuit court of Monroe, a writ in usual from, with a cause of action thereon, endorsed in these words : “ This action is founded on an instrument in writing, of which the following is a copy : ‘-on the first day of January next, I promise to pay John Philips, or…

Decided 1839-01-15

COLLIER, C. J.

¶1— The only error relied on, is, that there is no evidence of the service of process on the plaintiff in error, to authorise the judgment rendered against him.

¶2In Welch, adm’r, vs. Walker and wife, (4 Porter’s R. 120,) it was held, that an endorsement upon a writ of an acknowledgment of service, without proof that it was the act of the party purporting to have made it, would not sustain a judgment rendered against a defendant., who did not appear in the case. That case, however,'is not decisive of the one at bar; for here, the record expressly discloses, that the parties came by their attorneys, and that the judgment by default, was not claimed because "of the defendant’s non-appearance, hut Tor his omission to plead. The plaintiff in error, then, having appeared in court,by attorney,it is immaterial whether process was served or no, as it is waived by a gene ral appearance. (See Hobson & Sons vs. Emanuel & Gaines, at this term.) The judgment is affirmed.

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