Hale v. Crowell's Administratrix
Supreme Court of Florida
Error to Leon County Circuit Court. The plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs in the Court below, brought their action against Richard H. Crowell, Edward Bradford and Richard Bradford, in the late Superior Court of the County of Leon, on a joint obligation signed and sealed by defendants. — ■ Three separate praecipes were filed by the attorney for plaintiffs, directing the clerk to issue three separate writs of summons ad respon-dendum against the defendants, which…
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Error to Leon County Circuit Court. The plaintiffs in error, who were also plaintiffs in the Court below, brought their action against Richard H. Crowell, Edward Bradford and Richard Bradford, in the late Superior Court of the County of Leon, on a joint obligation signed and sealed by defendants. — ■ Three separate praecipes were filed by the attorney for plaintiffs, directing the clerk to issue three separate writs of summons ad respon-dendum against the defendants, which was accordingly done. At the Spring term of said Superior Court, 1843, the attorney for plaintiffs filed a declaration…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Chief Justice Douglas :
This suit was instituted in the late Superior Court of Leon County, by Lewis Hale, Michael Ferrall, and Thomas M. Crowell, against Richard H. Bradford, Edward Bradford and Richard H. Crowell, upon the joint bond of the defendants, (in the Court below,) for the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, payable to the plaintiffs. Process was sued out against and duly served upon all of the said defendants, and the declaration filed in the case is in the usual form in debt, charging all the defendants jointly. Judgment by default for want of plea, was rendered against…
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