Court Opinion

ID: 8256925
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 15:32:41.419677+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:43:01.565713
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Fisher, J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court below entered a judgment final, by default, against the defendant. The action is not founded upon an instrument of writing, ascertaining the sum due; at least none such is declared on, by the plaintiffs.
The statute is as follows, on this subject: “All judgments on demurrer, confession non sum informatus, nil dicit, or by default, in actions of debt, for a sum certain, and in actions founded on any instrument of writing, ascertaining the sum due,” &c., “shall be final on the last day of the term,” &c. Hutch Code, 875.
Under this provision of the statute, a judgment final could not be rendered on the contract, as set out in the complaint.
Judgment reversed, judgment by default, with writ of inquiry, and cause remanded.