Walker v. Scott
Walker v. Scott
Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
The real points in these three cases are few and simple. Isaac Scott, in the due course of trade, became possessed
2d. The motion was further resisted on the ground, that Daniel Grant had filed a bill in equity, to vacate the judgment against him and James S. Walker, upon the ground, that the action in which the judgment was rendered, having been commenced by bail process, and the attorney of. Scott having in vacation dismissed the bail, the whole case went with it; and that no action could be had in the common law Court until the equity cause whs disposed of.
We see no conflict of jurisdiction in this case. This was a motion to amend a common law judgment, and not to enforce the judgment,, and did not interfere with the object for which Mr. Grant’s bill was filed. To say the most of the matter, if there be a conflict, it is between Judge Cabaniss
There is but a single question in all these cases, and it is this: does the dismissal of bail process carry out of Court the suit upon which it is grafted ?
It is admitted, and correctly, that notwithstanding a suit is commenced by bail, if the bail process cannot be served, it may proceed as an ordinary action. This concedes the whole question. It establishes that the two are not inseparably connected, and this is further demonstrated from the fact, that bail process may be sued out pendente lite. And this not only answers the objection to the motion to amend the judgment, but disposes of the ground in the equity-cause.
The only new point made in Grant’s bill is, that Green, the attorney of Isaac Scott, had, for a consideration paid him by Benjamin Walker, agreed to collect the debt out of him; all of which is flatly denied.
I have not deemed it necessary or profitable, to notice in detail the many minor points made in this record; all of which we hold were properly disposed of by the Court below.
Judgment affirmed,.
Reference
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- Benjamin Walker, in error v. Isaac Scott, in error Daniel Grant and Benjamin Walker, in error v. The same Daniel Grant, in error v. The same
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