Case Name: - v. PEEBLES, Coroner
Court: Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals of Tennessee
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1823
Citations: 1 Peck 196
Docket Number: 
Parties: - v. PEEBLES, Coroner.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 155–156

Head Matter:
Supreme Court of Errors and Appeals. Charlotte.
1823.
- v. PEEBLES, Coroner.
A judgment by motion cannot be bad against a coroner for the return upon ají. fa. of “ no goods found in my county ”; for the return, though informal, is substantially good. [Acc. Phillips v. Cunningham, 5 T. 416, and Hill v. Hinton, 2 Head, 128, both citing this case.]

Opinion:
Haywood, J.
delivered the opinion of himself and of Judges Peck and Brown.
In this case process of execution has been directed to the Coroner, and he has returned upon the fieri facias " no goods found in my county "; upon which return a motion is made under the Act of 1803, ch. 18, § 1, that judgment may be entered against him for the whole sum mentioned in the fieri facias. And it is urged by Mr. Johnston that this being an insufficient return, is as no return, and subjects the Coroner for haring made no return of his execution.
The return, though informal, is substantially good, and two of us, Judges Peck and Haywood, think that the Act did not embrace the case of an insufficient return, but only the non-return of process.