Court Opinion

ID: 7128582
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 15:16:18.081069+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:14:22.753999
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Chief Justice Ewing
delivered the opinion of the Court.
The variance produced by the omission of the name of one of the administrators of John McGee, dec’d. could alone have been taken advantage of by plea in abatement, or by demurrer in the nature of a plea in abatement, in the Court below, filed within the proper time. It is a dilatory defence, and cannot be taken advantage of by a motion in arrest of judgment.
The penalty of the bond sued on is joint, and a joint action may be maintained in the name of all the obligors on the same, though the condition may require different amounts to be paid to each. A several action might no doubt have been sustained, on the condition in the name of each, for the amount undertaken to be paid to each, but this does not preclude the right to the joint action, in the name of all, on the penal undertaking to all.
Jacob Keller, though one of the plaintiffs, had no interest in the amount sought to be recovered, as appears by the condition of the bond, as well as by an indorsement upon the writ, that “the suit is for the benefit of Joseph McGee.”
His service of the writ as deputy Sheriff, should have been taken advantage of in the Court below, and within the proper time. It was matter of abatement only. There being no other errors assigned, we can notice no other, though we perceive one which if taken advantage of in the proper form, might have been made radically available.
Judgment affirmed, with costs, &c.