Court Opinion

ID: 8256044
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-16 15:31:41.728408+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:42:59.624978
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Mr. Justice Trotter
delivered the opinion of the court.
This judgment is manifestly erroneous. It is contrary to every principle of justiceffo render a judgment against a party who has had no notice of the proceeding against him, and consequently no opportunity to defend himself. . It does not alter the effect of this principle, that the two defendants below, who had no notice, are merely the sureties of George Torrey. The judgment against him cannot be evidence against them, even in a subsequent suit upon his bond, because having no notice of the motion on which it is grounded, they can in no way be considered parties to it. This was so ruled by this court at a former term, in the case of Carmichael v. The Governor, and in Pennsylvania in the case of Carmack et al. v. The Commonwealth, 5 Binney, 184. The recital that issue was joined upon the motion, is no evidence of the appearance of the parties not served with process. It would be doing violence to every rule of construction, as well as to the rights of the parties, to hold that the recital in this case embraces any other parties than those who were served with the notice.
Let the judgment be reversed, and the cause remanded.