Court Opinion

ID: 6538343
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 22:13:32.706505+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:55:43.877992
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Walker delivered the opinion of the court. In this case the defendant pleaded the statute of limitation, to which the plaintiff filed five replications : each admitting that more than three years had elapsed between the time her cause of action accrued, and the commencement of the suit; and relying upon the provisions of the 24th sect. Dig. ch. 99, which provides that where an action is commenced before the cause of action is barred by limitation, and a non-suit is suffered, that such plaintiff may commence a new action within twelve months after such non-suit suffered, &c. The first and second of these replications no where aver against whom the first, or the several succeeding suits, after non-suit, were commenced; and although the third replication properly describes the cause of action and the parties in the first suit, and that a non-suit was suffered, it wholly fails to show against whom the second suit was commenced. The fourth replication was withdrawn ; the fifth replication avers that after the first non-suit, the plaintiff commenced her action anew, “ with intent to implead the plaintiff, J. W. Wilson and Thadeus C. Wilson.” Conceding this to be a clerical misprision, and that the pleader intended to say “defendant,” instead of “ plaintiff,” and the averment was in fact, that she intended to implead the defendant, J. W. Wilson and Thadeus C. Wilson, or the defendant, and the others, still the averment is insufficient. It is not enough to say that the plaintiff intended to sue, but there must be a direct averment that she did sue, &c. Each of these objections is fatal under the decision of this court in the case of The Bank vs. Sherrill, 7 Eng. 186. The replications were therefore defective, and the demurrer to them properly sustained. Let the j udgment be affirmed.