Randolph v. Sharpe
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was an action for breach of covenant by appellee against appellant; tried at February term, 1867, of the City Court of Montgomery, before Hon. T. M. Arrington. The complaint in this case is in the words following, to-wit: “ Reuben W. Sharpe, plaintiff, vs. Benjamin F. Randolph, defendant.”
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This was an action for breach of covenant by appellee against appellant; tried at February term, 1867, of the City Court of Montgomery, before Hon. T. M. Arrington. The complaint in this case is in the words following, to-wit: “ Reuben W. Sharpe, plaintiff, vs. Benjamin F. Randolph, defendant.” The plaintiff claims of the defendant twenty thousand dollars damages, for the breach of a covenant entered into by him on the 8th September, 1860, in substance as follows: The said defendant and his wife Anna P. Randolph, in consideration of the sum of seven thousand-two hundred dollars, to them paid…
1Opinion of the CourtByrd, J.
1. By § 2405 of the Code of 1853, “no judgment can be arrested, annulled, or set aside for any matter not previously objected to, if the complaint contain a substantial cause of action.” In this case the counsel for appellant have argued at some length, and with great force, *271the defectiveness of the complaint. But under the provisions of the Code, we have come to the conclusion that the complaint contains a substantial cause of action, and is good after judgment by default, under the above recited section of the Code. It is therefore unnecessary to decide whether a demurrer could have been…
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