Case ID: f-cas_12/html/0314-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 6,584a.
    HOGAN v. TAYLOR.
    [Hempst. 20.] 
    
    Superior Court, Territory of Arkansas.
    Aug., 1822.
    Judgment — Amount Claimed.
    The judgment cannot exceed the amount claimed in the declaration.
    [This was a suit by Edmund P. Hogan against Creed Taylor.]
   PEE CUKIAM.

■ The judgment in this case being, rendered for fifty dollars more than the amount claimed in the declaration, is manifestly erroneous, and must be reversed; it being well established, that a greater amount cannot be given than claimed in the declaration. 1 Chit. Pl. 372; Yel. 45; 10 Coke, 117; 3 Com. Dig. tit. “Damages,” E. 3. Eeversed.