Case ID: wright_1/html/0179-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LANE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HAMILTON COUNTY,
    APRIL TERM, 1833.
    JUDGES — LANE AND WEIGHT.
    NOBLE v. MARKLEY AND SHEARER.
    Security for costs — endorsement after return of writ — sci. fa. on when copied into the record.
    An endorsement on a writ as security for costs, after the return of the writ and a continuance of the same, is good, under the practice of the courts, and may be enforced by scire facias, if the endorsement on the w7rit has been copied into the final record of the cause.
    Soiee eacias, to make securities whose names are endorsed upon a writ liable for costs. A declaration upon a scire facias has been filed, and particularly states the plaintiff’s case, to which there are several pleas.
    1. Nul tiel record in the Supreme Court, of the summons, judgment, and appeal. Replication : there is such record, on which issue is taken.
    2. That Tice (the original defendant) was a resident of the county where the writ was sued out, in 1826, and continued to reside in the county, till 1828; and that the writ was not endorsed by the *defendants untilafter its service and return, and the case had [178 been several times continued in court. To this there was a general demurrer and joinder.
    
      V. Worthington, for the plaintiff.
    
      Strait for the defendants.
   LANE, J.

The only question here, is, whether a voluntary endorsement of a writ for costs, after its return, imposes an obligation upon the security whicli can be enforced by a scire facias? The statute in force, when this writ was endorsed (22 O. L. 50), provides that when the plaintiff is not a resident or freeholder in the county, the writ shall be endorsed by some resident freeholder, as security for costs, before the clerk shall deliver the same to the plaintiff, and that the person so endorsing shall thereby be bound, and liable to pay all costs, &c., in the Court of Common Pleas and Supreme Court; and after final judgment in the case, may be charged by scire facias. Upon the equity of this statute, and the practice under it, to take security for costs, by endorsement of the writ, when ordered by the court during the pendency of the suit, we are disposed to sanction the proceedings, and so hold the endorsment obligatory, and the endorsers liable in this form of action. The plea therefore is no bar, and the demurrer must be sustained.

Upon inspecting the record as to the other issue, it appeared that the entry of the security was not embraced in the record of the judgment. A diminution of -the record was then suggested, leave given to amend, and the cause was continued.

[Reversed, as Noble v. Shearer & Markley, 6 O. 426, but not on the point that the endorsement of writ after service binds surety for costs, which is approved in Newsom v. Ran, 18 O. 240, 246.]