Case ID: del_11/html/0432-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Jesse R. Holten v. John Pyle, Sheriff.
    The misnomer of a defendant by a wrong name in a judgment rendered by-confession in the Superior Court upon a warrant of attorney by such wrong name will be no defence to an execution on the judgment in an action of replevin- against the sheriff to recover the goods seized under it.
    Replevin for goods levied on and taken in execution by the defendant, as sheriff of New Castle County, to which he pleaded, with other pleas, that the taking of the goods and chattels in the declaration mentioned was done by virtue and authority of a certain writ oí fieri faaicts issued out of this court and directed to him as the sheriff of said county, being No. , to Term, 18 , at the suit of one George W. W. Naudain against the said plaintiff, by the name of John R. Holten, upon and in pursuance of a certain judgment rendered against the said plaintiff, by the name of John R. Holten, by the said Superior Court, by confession, by that name, upon a warrant of attorney describing the said plaintiff as John R. Holten, and signed, sealed and duly executed by the said plaintiff, said judgment being No. 595 as of the November Term, 1878. And this the said defendant is- ready to verify, etc. This plea had been formally traversed with the other pleas on the record, but at this term, on the application of the counsel for the plaintiff and leave granted by the court, the replication was withdrawn and a general demurrer was entered to it.
    
      Gray for the defendant,
    on the argument of the demurrer, cited 2 Str., 1218; 3 Taunt., 504; 6 Taunt., 115; 14 E. C. L., 220; 44 E. C. L., 406; 18 How., 404.
    
      John 11. Rodney, contra, cited 8 East., 328; 6 Tr., 234.
   The Court

gave judgment for the defendant on the demurrer.