Meadows v. Alexander

Happily in this case we are asked to answer one question, and fortunately we can answer it unequivocally, “speaking by the card” of former adjudication. ■ The question is, can a paper, purporting to be or attempting to be an affidavit, but not signed by an affiant, rightly be called an affidavit, and be so treated by the courts in their dealings with it? Our answer is, it can not.

On the hearing of the case in the _court below this cértiorari was overruled and dismissed. In the justice’s court the levy of a mortgage fi. fa. was dismissed, because the affidavit to foreclose the mortgage was not…