Case Name: Goode v. Galt
Court: Court of Appeals of Virginia
Jurisdiction: Virginia
Decision Date: 1820-12
Citations: 1 Gilmer 152
Docket Number: 
Parties: Goode v. Galt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Virginia Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 866–866

Head Matter:
Goode v. Galt.
December, 1820.
Bail Bond — Failure to Sign — Effect.—The name of a person is in the body of a bail bond, but the bond is not signed by him; it is error to take judgment against him.
Same — Return.—The sheriff may amend the return.
Galt and Johnson, partners in trade, obtained a writ in debt, against IDllis Pur-year, from the Superior court of law for Goochland county. The sheriff returned, that the writ was executed on Lilis Puryear, who was “bailed by William Goode.” The bail bond is part of the record, and though the name of William Goode is inserted in the bond, it is signed only by Lilis Puryear, and Richard Redford; Redford’s name is not in the body of the bond. The defendant never aopeared to plead, and an office judgment was confirmed against Lilis Puryear, and William Goode. Goode appealed.
The principal case is cited in Baker v. Preston, 1 Gilm. 301.

Opinion:
*ROANL, Judge.
The judgment is to be reversed to the writ, and the cause sent back; with liberty to the sheriff to amend his return, if he think proper: and for farther proceedings to be had.
Cabell absent.