Case ID: tenn_16/html/0161-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Groves vs. Dodson.
    In assumpsit, where the damages were stated in the writ, but left blank in the declaration, the defect is cured by a verdict for the plaintiff.
    This was an action of assumpsit; the writ laid the damages at two hundred dollars; but the amount of damages was not stated in the declaration. The jury rendered a verdict for the plaintiff.
    
      
      J. W. Combs, for plaintiff in error.
    
      id. Wright, for defendant in error.
   Per Curiam.

The declaration concludes to the damage of the plaintiff, without setting out any sum; hut the . writ states the damages at two hundred dollars. The damages being left in blank, matters nothing after verdict.

Judgment affirmed.