Court Opinion

ID: 6945917
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 01:25:36.04318+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:07:54.796583
License: Public Domain

Smith, Justice, delivered the opinion of the Court: This was a proceeding under the statute, on a scire facias to foreclose a mortgage. Amongst other errors assigned, it is proposed to notice but two:—First, The scire facias commands the defendant, in the Circuit Court, to answer the complaint of Cushman, Eaton & Co., without disclosing the Christian names of Cushman and Eaton, or of those embraced under the term Co.— Secondly, The scire facias does not aver that the last instalment of money, to secure the payment of which the mortgage was given, had fallen due. It is too obvious to doubt, that the omission of the Christian names of the plaintiffs in the action, as, also, of the names of the persons who composed the Company, is fatal—equally so, the neglect to state, as the statute has declared, that the last payment had become due, before the suing out of the scire facias. As the proceedings under the statute are summary, it should be strictly complied with. The statute of jeofails does not cure the omissions; and as there has been no appearance, the errors have not been waived. Judgment reversed with costs. Judgment reversed.