Court Opinion

ID: 4930023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-24 01:06:11.358895+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:14:26.307691
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Goodenow, J.
This is an • action of trespass, quare clausum. The writ was returnable to the District Court, April term, 1852. At that term, Jesse Dutton, one of the defendants, pleaded in abatement the fact, that Erastus Red-*337man, ene other of the defendants, sued in this action, was a «deputy sheriff at the time of the service of the writ, under John R. Redman, sheriff of the county of Hancock, and that the writ was served by the said John R. Redman, as sheriff, he not being a coroner or constable duly qualified to serve said writ.
To this plea there was a demurrer and joinder. At the S. J. Court, April term, 1853, the plea was adjudged good by the presiding Judge, and the writ abated. To this decision exceptions were duly taken and allowed.
We do' not think it is competent for Jesse Dutton to plead this matter in abatement. The writ was duly served on him. It is not permitted to a party to allege as error that which does not injure him. Erastus Redman might have pleaded this matter in abatement, and if he had done so in season the writ might have been abated as to him, and have remained good as to the other defendants. As he did not plead it, he must be considered as having waived his right to except to the service of the writ. Thayer v. Ray & trustees, 17 Pick. 166; Maine Bank v. Hervey, 21 Maine, 38. Exceptions sustained.

Plea in abatement adjudged insufficient.

Judgment that the defendants answer over.