Case ID: tenn_6/html/0567-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Peb. Cuexam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

* Muckleroy v. O’Callahan.
    f Striking Plea from Docket. 1
    The defendant below pleaded in the County Court two pleas, and after tlie cause was removed into the Circuit Court the defendant’s attorney wrote on the trial docket where the other pleas stood, non assumpsit, and signed his name; and in the term a jury found a verdict. The verdict was set aside, and the cause continued on the docket for several subsequent terms ; at each term being brought forward on the trial docket with this plea as well as the others ; and finally, at a late term, a verdict was given. In the term when given, the attorney who put in this plea being absent, and leave to plead it when he did not being found on the minute docket or other record» the court struck it out, and the verdict was taken on the two others. The matter of the defense could not be given in evidence upon the two former pleas.
   Peb. Cuexam.

It cannot be alleged that the plaintiff had no notice of the plea; he hath at one time tried the cause under it, and saw it' continued on the docket at every * intermediate term up to that in which the last verdict was given. The rejection of the plea by the court was in effect a rejection of the facts which the defendant intended to prove, and which if proved, would have been material.

Reverse the judgment, and remove it to the Circuit Court to be tried upon the issue of non assumpsit, as well as those joined in the other pleas.

See King’s Digest, 9443.