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  "name": "ROBERT SIMPSON v. W. H. SIMPSON",
  "name_abbreviation": "Simpson v. Simpson",
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      "ROBERT SIMPSON v. W. H. SIMPSON."
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        "text": "Rodman, J.\nThe Statute under which the plaintiff seeks to \u00a1recover (Rev. Code ch. 45, sec. 29) gives the penalty to the \u00bfparty aggrieved. The scire facias before us recites \u201cthat it was made to appear that William H. Simpson, (the defendant in this case) Clerk of the said Court, failed to issue a writ of possession in the case of Doe on demise of Robert Simpson .against Sarah Simpson and others, upon a judgment rendered Jit, &g.\u201d, for which failure he was amerced, &c. Evidently the sd. fa. is defective, in that it does not state wlio recovered tbe judgment in the case recited, and thereby fails to show that the plaintiff was the party aggrevied. A good form in such cases isfound in Eaton\u2019s Forms, 386. The defendant however did not demur, and we assume therefore that the sd. fa. recited a judgment that the plaintiff in ejectment recover his term and damages; and was sufficient. As the judgment was not the foundation of the action, but merely inducement, the defendant might have pleaded nil debet, which would have put in issue the plaintiff\u2019s whole case. 1 Chit. PL' 517, 521. But he was at liberty also by a special plea to put in issue solely the existence and legal effect of the alleged judgment in the ejectment suit; this he did by his plea of Unul tiel record.\u201d He further pleaded that he had duly issued \u25a0 the execution, but as the'jury found against him on this plea, his failure to do so must be conclusively assumed, and no question arises on that issue. The Judge found for the plaintiff on the issue made by the plea of nul tiel record. Tins finding involves a decision \u25a0on two distinct issues:\n1st That a certain alleged writing existed as ot record:\n2d. That the legal effect of that record was to impose on the defendant the duty of issuing an execution on the judgment so found to exist. From the first finding, being a question of fact, the defendant could not appeal; from the second he could. All these principles are settled in Trice v. Turrentine, 13 Ire. 212. In the case stated by the Judge he sets forth so much of the writing submitted to his inspection as the :record in the case of Doe ex dem. Simpson v. Simpson, as he deems material, and after referring to that case he says: \u201cThe verdict and judgment therein were in the words \u2018that the defendants were the tenants of the plaintiff, and are guilty of the trespass declared upon in the declaration of ejectment, and assess the plaintiff\u2019s damages to a penny: and that the Clerk\u2019s office have judgment and execution for the plaintiff\u2019s costs.\u2019 \u201d\nObviously there is no judgment here in favor of the plaintiff; and therefore he could not be a party aggrieved by the laches of the defendant in failing to issue an execution upon the judgment: the defendant had no right to issue such am execution. Without noticing here any of the numerous points presented in the arguments of counsel, we rest our opinion, on this.\nLet this opinion be certified.\nPer Curiam. Judgment reversed-",
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        "author": "Rodman, J."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Wilson, for the appellant.",
      "Ashe, contra."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "ROBERT SIMPSON v. W. H. SIMPSON.\n'\u2022\u2019The plaintiff in a Sai. Fia. under see. 29, eh. 45 of the Rev. Code, must show himself to be the party aggrieved by the default in question: Therefore, where the defendant therein pleaded, nul tiel record, \u2022and. the presiding Judge having found that the writing upon record was as follows; \u201cthat the defendants [to the original suit] are the tenants of the plaintiff [therein], and are guilty of the trespass declared \u2022upon in the declaration of ejectment, and assess the plaintiff\u2019s 'dam.-,age to a penny, and that the Clerk\u2019s office have judgment and ezecu-' \u2022.\u00bfion for the plaintiff\u2019s costs;\u201d thereupon, also found the issue in favor of the plaintiff in the sai. fa.: Held, to be error, as the record showed no judgment in favor of such plaintiff.\n'.The issue nul tiel record, includes two questions; one, of fact, from the decision of which in the Court below there is no appeal, the other, of law, deducible from such fact, from the decision of which below there is an appeal\n{(\u00a1A form of sci.fa. in Eaton\u2019s Forms, p. 386 recommended).\n(IfPi\u2019ice v. Tun-entine 13 Ire. 212 cited and approved.)\nSoire Facias, tried before Buxton, J., at Spring Term 1869 of the Superior Court of UNION.\nThe facts necessary to an understanding of the Opinion are l\u00edo be found therein.\nJudgment having been rendered for the plaintiff, the defendant appealed.\nWilson, for the appellant.\nAshe, contra."
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