Cassius M. Carrier & Son v. Poulas

Mississippi Supreme Court
Cassius M. Carrier & Son v. Poulas, 87 Miss. 595 (Miss. 1905)
Calhoon

Cassius M. Carrier & Son v. Poulas

Opinion of the Court

Calhoon, J.,

delivered the op inion of the court.

On an issue whether the attachment was properly sued out, Code 1892, § 166, provides that, when the verdict is for the defendant, he may recover damages. In the case before us, the affidavit being on the ground of nonresidence, which could not be denied in this instance, the court allowed a writ of inquiry and awarded damages on the attachment bond, the jury having-found on the main issue that there was no debt. Under these circumstances, the right to sue on the bond for damages is clear—Buckley v. Van Diver, 70 Miss., 622 (12 South. Rep., 905)—and we see no reason to force defendant to a new and independent action.

Affirmed.

After the delivery of the foregoing opinion, counsel for appellant filed a vigorous suggestion of error, to which the court responded as follows:

*599Calhoon, J.,

delivered the response of the court to the suggestion of error.

The objection that the attachment bond was not put in evidence on the trial of the claim for damages was made here for the first time. It was not made a ground in the motion for a new trial in the court below; the attention of the circuit judge was never called to it. If it had been, a correction was easy by permitting its introduction there. We decline to reverse on this state of facts.

It seems that the judgment on the issue of debt.or no debt was decided for defendants, appellees here, and, notwithstanding the declaration was brought by Cassius M'. Carrier & Son, a corporation, the judgment is, on that issue, “that defendants do have and recover of E. M. Carrier and W. B. Burk, composing the firm of Cassius M. Carrier & Son,” the costs. The judgment on the claim for damages is “that defendants do have and recover of the plaintiffs, Cassius M. Carrier & Son, and the sureties upon their attachment bond)” the sum recovered and all costs. This latter judgment we think good, on its face. The former is technically incorrect, and is susceptible of amendment at any time, under Code 1892, § 940.

Now, no objection or hint of objection on this score was made in the court below. If the court’s attention had been called to it, it could have been corrected in five minutes. There is no mention made of it in the motion for a new trial below; there is no hint of it in the assignment of errors in this court, nor is there any in the original briefs of counsel on the appeal. It appears for the first time in the suggestion of error, and we decline to reverse because of it now.

An execution for costs on the first judgment, unless amended, could not properly issue against Cassius M. Carrier & Son as a corporation, because not so rendered, and so the corporation cannot complain. It could not issue against Cassius M. Carrier & Son as individuals, because they are not parties, as such, and are not, as such individuals, appealing.

*600Tbe second judgment — that on the damage issue — being against “Cassius hi. Carrier & Son,” is good, although not specifying that that is a corporation, because it is, in fact, a corporation, as appears from the declaration.

Suggestion of error overruled.

Reference

Full Case Name
Cassius M. Carrier & Son v. Thomas Poulas
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2 cases
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Published
Syllabus
1. Attachment. Damages. Recovery on bond. Oode 1892, § 166. In an attachment suit the defendant is entitled to have his damages assessed for the wrongful suing out of a writ under Oode 1892, § 166, authorizing the recovery of damages in such suits, if the question of indebtedness be decided in his favor, although the grounds upon which the attachment were sued out were not contested by him, and is not compelled to bring a new and independent suit on the bond. 2. Same. Appeal. Objections not made below. Where in such case a defendant was awarded his damages, the plaintiff cannot complain on appeal for the first time that the attachment bond was not offered in evidence. 3. Same. Objections to form of judgment. Oode 1892, § 940. Technical defects in the form of a judgment, susceptible of amendment under Code 1892, § 940, authorizing amendments of judgments in certain cases, cannot be complained of, for the first time, after decision in the supreme court, on suggestion of error. 4. Corporation. Judgment against. Uame. A judgment against a corporation by its corporate name is good, although it does not recite that the name is that of a corporation, especially where the record shows the fact.