Case Name: COOK v. BENNETT & l.
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1822-04
Citations: 2 Me. 13
Docket Number: 
Parties: COOK v. BENNETT & l.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 13–13

Head Matter:
COOK v. BENNETT & l.
Practice. — Where the defendants in an action of trespass plead severally, and. have several judgments in the Court below, from which the plaintiff appeals, but neglects to enter and prosecute his appeal in the Court above ; each defendant is entitled, upon his separate complaint, to affirmation of his own judgment, independent of his co-defendant.
This was a complaint, for the affirmation of a judgment rendered in the Court of Common Pleas, in an action of trespass, in which Cook, and another defendant had pleaded severally, and had obtained several verdicts and judgments, from which the original plaintiffs Bennett fy al. entered a general appeal to this Court; but now failing to enter and prosecute their appeal, the original defendants filed each his separate complaint, praying for the affirmation of his own judgment.
Goodenow, for the respondents,
objected that the original defendants ought to have joined in one complaint:—

Opinion:
But the court said that having pleaded severally, and obtained separate judgments for their respective costs in the Court below, each is entitled to the affirmation of his own judgment here, independent of his co-defendant.