Alexander v. Hancock
Alexander v. Hancock
Opinion of the Court
It appears to this court that the non-suit was improperly ordered. The plaintiff sued to recover money which had come to the hands of the defendant as sheriff, and which the plaintiff claimed a right to receive. If the plaintiff had been suing, on one of the decrees, as assignee, the defendant in the decree, he should, under the Act of 1816, have styled himself in the process-assignee. But in this case the assignment was only part of his evidence to shew his right to the money, and therefore there was no necessity for him to style himself as-signee, or copy the assignment on his process. He gave in his bill of particulars exact notice of what he claimed, and no more was essential.
Adams was not deputy after his principal went out of
Motion to set aside non-suit granted.
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