Court Opinion

ID: 6949583
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:29:45.144518+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:08:02.107051
License: Public Domain

Walker, J. The defendant below entered a motion for a continuance, because an account was not filed under the common counts, ten days before the commencement of the term. The court overruled his motion, which is assigned for error. This was a failure to comply with the express requirements of the statute, and by its terms the defendant below was entitled to a continuance. The plaintiffs below, however, might have avoided a continuance by filing a stipulation that they would rely alone on the note sued on as evidence on the trial, or they might have entered a nolle prosequi to the common counts, which would have produced the same result. But having failed to do either, it was error to overrule the motion for a continuance, for which the judgment must be reversed, and the cause remanded. Judgment reversed.