Case Name: Groves vs. Dodson
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1835-05
Citations: 8 Yer. 161
Docket Number: 
Parties: Groves vs. Dodson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 161–162

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.