Legal Opinion

Daugherty v. Bridgman

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided January 15, 1844PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Error to Washington. This was an action of assumpsit brought by Arthur Bridgman and George Partridge, partners, &c., against John Daugherty, upon two promissory notes. Judgment for the plaintiffs November term 1842, for $230,19. The defendant below is the plaintiff in error. The facts in the record, and the errors complained of, appear in the Opinion of the court.

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Mason, Chief Justice.

We find no regular assignment of errors in this case, but from the brief argument of the plaintiff in error, it appears that the only error complained of, is, that the court should have decided the issue upon the demurrer before they compelled the defendant below to go to trial upon the pleas. Had such been the' fact, it would have been error. But we cannot find that the record shows any such thing to have been done. We cannot find that the defendant ever called up his second demurrer. Nor was there any trial upon the pleas; but a judgment was entered by…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Bailey v. ClarkSupreme Court of Florida · 1855

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