Court Opinion

ID: 5552953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:35:40.353117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:12.841385
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*50By the Court. —
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] This complaint was brought under Jones’ forms; the plaintiffs alleging that they paid the draft of, the defendants, supra protest, as accommodation acceptors, and they annex a copy of the instrument. It is true, the draft of itself is not and cannot be, under the law, the foundation of an action between these parties. Still, whether the plaintiffs sue at common law, or under the Act of 1847, the draft would have to be • set out as inducement to the action. That having been done, and sufficient accounts made to charge the defendants with the repayment of the money, why should the writ not be maintained ? We must steadily resist the attempts to whittle away this Act till nothing of it be left, as was the case with the judiciary Act of 1799.
[2.] Whether the service was sufficient, depends entirely ripon whether or not, when the Sheriff has five days to serve writs, and the last be Sunday, it is to be counted.
Not only the Constitution of the United States recognizes the Christian Sabbath, by exempting the President from the consideration of bills on that day, but by many of our own statute laws the day is protected from secular desecration. And again, by authorizing certain civil proceedings to be had on that day, when necessity requires it, the inference is legitimate that, as to other cases, it is dies non.
Under these circumstances, it would ill become this tribunal to require of the Sheriff and his deputies to be hovering around meeting houses, and violating the rest and sanctity of the domestic hearth, to serve process. Let our over-worked people and public officers be exempt on one day of the seven, from the toils and harassments of worldly business.
Judgment affirmed.