Case Name: JAMES C. JONES, Governor, etc., v. MARTIN HENDERSON. Sheriff, and his Sureties
Court: Tennessee Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Tennessee
Decision Date: 1850-09
Citations: 1 Shan. Cas. 35
Docket Number: 
Parties: JAMES C. JONES, Governor, etc., v. MARTIN HENDERSON. Sheriff, and his Sureties.
Judges: 
Reporter: Tennessee Cases with Notes and Annotations
Volume: 1
Pages: 35–35

Head Matter:
JAMES C. JONES, Governor, etc., v. MARTIN HENDERSON. Sheriff, and his Sureties.
Knoxville,
September Term, 1850.

Opinion:
MOTION. Omission of name. Judgment valid.
This ease is reported in Thompson's Cases, pages 53-55, as an oral opinion, and it is stated .that the court decided that where, in a motion ag-ainst a sheriff and his sureties, the name of one of the sheriff's sureties is by inadvertence omitted, but judgment is properly rendered against all the sureties, the judgment is valid. [This decision must have been put upon the ground that service of notice in a State case, or service of notice when made by the attorney-general in a State case, is the commencement of the suit, instead of the motion being the commencement of the suit, as in ordinary suits. (See note 2 under section 5352 of the Code). The judgment on motion must be against all the living sureties, or it will be void. [See Code, sec. 5347, and note, and sec. 5348, and note 5.]