Tissot & Wife v. Darling
Tissot & Wife v. Darling
Opinion of the Court
Suit upon an undertaking on appeal. Defendants demurred. Demurrer overruled. Defendants then answered, and plaintiffs had judgment, from which defendants appealed.
The undertaking was executed by defendants, in the case of Tissot and Wife v. Throckmorton, (6 Cal. Rep., 471,) which was a suit upon a note executed by Throckmorton to Mrs. Tissot, during the marriage.
The first objection is that there is no averment in the complaint that execution was issued upon the judgment against Throckmorton.
When, by the terms of the contract, express or implied, a request or demand constitutes a condition precedent to the bringing of the suit, then it must be averred. (1 Ch. Plea., 328, 330.) But there is nothing in the undertaking making a request necessary. The defendants bound themselves that the appellant should pay the judgment. The non-payment of the judgment can be shown without the issuing of an execution. (15 Wend., 502; 5 Gill and J., 102; Nickerson v. Chatterton, 7 Cal. Rep., 573.)
The second objection is that the undertaking was not executed by Throckmorton, but only by the defendants. This objection has been decided by this Court not to be well taken. (Curtis v. Richards & Vantine, January, 1858.)
The third objection is not well taken. The note upon which the suit was brought against Throckmorton was executed to the wife alone, and the undertaking in that case was executed to the husband and wife. There was no proper objection made to the joinder of the wife with the husband in that case; and, by not making any such objection, Throckmorton admitted she had an interest in that suit, and the defendants are concluded by his act as to that matter. But besides this, the undertaking having been executed to husband and wife, she may join; and the un
There is nothing in the other points made by the counsel of defendants. The appeal seems to have been taken for purposes of delay, and the judgment is, therefore, affirmed, with ten per cent, damages.
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- An averment in the complaint, in a suit on an appeal-bond, that execution had been issued on the judgment and returned unsatisfied, is unnecessary. The non-payment of the judgment can be shown without issuing an execution. The objection that an undertaking on appeal was not signed by the principal, has beei decided by this Court in the case of Curtis v. Richards & Vantine, January Term 1858. Where suit is brought in the name of the husband and wife, and no objection is made t% the joinder of the wife, and judgment is obtained, and afterwards defendants execut» an undertaking on appeal to the husband and wife, and suit is afterwards brought or the undertaking, in the name of the husband and wife : Held, that the defendants ai\\ concluded by the acts of appellant, and that the wife is properly joined in the suit on the undertaking.