Maulding v. Rigby
Maulding v. Rigby
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
In this case several exceptions are taken to the verdict of the jury, who were empannelled to assess the damages sustained by the plaintiff; an interlocutory judgment having been entered against the defendant below, John Maulding, upon overruling his demurrer to the declaration.
In support of these objections, it is alleged that no damages whatever, were assessed by the jury, and that their finding was, in fact, what the judgment of the court should have been upon a proper finding. The verdict is in the following words, to wit: “We of the jury find for the plaintiff, the debt in the declaration mentioned, to be discharged by the payment of the sum,” &c. This case, in respect to this point, is precisely analogous to the cases of The Gov., use of Conray v. Longacre, and The Gov., use of Ross, v. Downs et al. (opinions of this court,) in which the verdict was considered sufficient in substance and certainty.
It is also insisted, that there is error in the decision of the circuit court in overruling the objection of the defendant to the admissibility of certain evidence, offered on the trial, by the plaintiff. From the bill of exceptions, this evidence appears to have consisted of two judgments of the circuit court, one of which was in favor of Alvarez Fisk, indorsee of William C. Cross v. William S. Breckenridge, one of the obligors in the bond, upon which this
As the evidence does not appear which formed the subject of exception in the court below, we have no means of ascertaining whether or not thé decision was correct, and must therefore presume that it was correct.
The judgment must be affirmed.
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