Case Name: Cookes v. The Patriotic Bank of Washington
Court: Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1829-10
Citations: 1 Leigh 433
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cookes v. The Patriotic Bank of Washington.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 28
Pages: 154–154

Head Matter:
Cookes v. The Patriotic Bank of Washington.
October, 1829.
(Absent Green, J. )
Forthcoming; Bonds — Notice—Variance in Name of Party —Effect, — In a notice of a motion to be made on a forthcoming bond the bond is described, by mistake as executed by John when it was in fact executed by .George M. Cooke: held, variance material, and notice insufficient.
A fieri facias, sued out of the, circuit court of Stafford, by the appellees against George M. Cooke, having been levied on his property, he together with John Cooke, his surety, gave bond for the forthcoming of the property at the day of sale, in the usual form; which was forfeited. A notice was given to the true obligors, of a motion to be made for award of execution on the bond: but it was addressed to John M. Cooke (instead of George M. Cooke) and John Cooke; and it described the bond as the bond of John M. Cooke (instead of George M.), and John Cooke. It was objected at the hearing of the motion, that the notice did not truly describe the bond on which the motion was made, but on the contrary described a bond which did not exist; but, notwithstanding this variance, the circuit court awarded execution on the bond. The defendants applied to this court for a supersedeas, which was allowed.
Green for the plaintiffs in error, and Briggs for the defendants.
See Peter v. Butler, ante, p. 285.
He was absent during the whole of this term, being a member of the convention, (which sat from the first Monday in October 1829, till the 15th January 1830) and constantly attending his duty there.
Forthcoming Bonds — Notice—Sufficiency of. — If the notice descends to particulars as to dates, sums and names, the documents referred to, when produced, must correspond with the notice or no judgment can be given. Board, etc., v. Parsons, 22 W. Va. 311, citing 1 Rob. Pr. (1st Ed.) 590; Drew v. Anderson, 1 Call 51; Cookes v. Patriotic Bank, 1 Leigh 433. See also, citing the principal case for this proposition, Shepherd v. Brown, 30 W. Va. 20, 3 S. E. Rep. 190; foot-note to Monteith v. Com., 15 Gratt. 172. See monographic note on Statutory Bonds” appended to Goolsby v. strother, 21 Gratt. 107.

Opinion:
The only point was the misnomer in the notice, of the principal obligor — John M. instead of George M. Cooke; the effect of which was, that the notice described a different forthcoming bond from that on which the motion was in fact made.
This court held the variance material and fatal, and reversed the judgment of the circiut court.