Runnion v. Crane

This was an action of assumpsit. The plaintiffs below declared on a promissory note against the defendants as partners, by which they promised the-plaintiffs to pay them in four months, &c.

*467At the term of the Circuit Court to which the process was returnable, the parties appeared, the cause was continued the affidavit of the defendants, and they were ruled to plead within 60 days. This they failed to do. At the next term, the plaintiffs having made no attempt to take an interlocutory judgment against the defendants for failing to plead within the time limited by the Court, the defendants,…