Case Name: Mahan versus Myers & al.
Court: Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Maine
Decision Date: 1852
Citations: 34 Me. 34
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mahan versus Myers & al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maine Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 34–34

Head Matter:
Mahan versus Myers & al.
It is not irregular to refuse a motion for leave to summon in additional Joint promisors, while an issue is pending upon a plea in abatement for the non-joinder.
On Exceptions from the District Court, Cole, J.
O'Donnell, for the plaintiff.
Codman, for the defendants.

Opinion:
Wells, J.,
orally. — This suit was brought in the Municipal Court. The defendants there pleaded in abatement that there rvere two other joint promisors. Upon that plea issue was taken. The decision Avas for the defendants, and that the Avrit abate. The plaintiff appealed to the District Court, and there moved for leave to summon in the other two joint promisors. This motion Avas refused, and the plaintiff' excepted.
When the case came to the District Court, the issue in abatement was pending. While that issue Avas undetermined, it would have been irregular to summon in the other supposed promisors. There was therefore nothing unsuitable in refusing the plaintiff's motion. Exceptions overruled.