Hatch v. H. M. Roberts & Co.
Hatch v. H. M. Roberts & Co.
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
To these pleas a demurrer was filed, which was taken under advisement, and a memorandum of the circuit judge was subsequently filed among the papers, sustaining said demurrer. But no entry was ever made on the record, and no judgment ever entered.
Subsequently the cause progressed to trial upon the fourth plea, and a jury and verdict was had for the plaintiffs below. There was a motion for a new trial, which was refused, and judgment entered for the defendant in error.
The cause is brought to this court by writ of error, and it is insisted that the rendition of a judgment upon the. verdict of the jury, upon the fourth plea, without a disposition of the demurrer to the three preceding pleas, is erroneous.
In the case of Marlow v. Harner, 6 How. Miss. R. p. 189, it has been held by this court that when plaintiff elects to démur to a plea which he even might have treated as a nullity, a judgment without a disposition of the demurrer will be erroneous. The case of Harper v. Bondurant is to the same effect. 7 S. and M. p. 397.
We cannot notice the argument made as to the propriety of
Let the judgment be reversed, cause remanded, and a venire de novo awarded.
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