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Teal v. Tinney

2 How. Pr. 93 Court February Term, 1846. English

Delivered by Bronson, Chief' Justice.

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p. 93
* Andrew Teal et al. agt. Oliver Tinney et al.

Headnote

The Mile of the cowrt should appear in or on a declaration, filed and served.
February Term, 1846.
Motion by defendant to set aside default and subsequent proceedings, for irregularity.
The declaration filed in this cause, the copy declarations served on each of the defendants, and the copy declaration containing the sheriff’s return, upon which the default was entered, were not entitled in any court. They .commenced as follows: “ Of the term of July, to wit, of the eleventh day of October, as yet of the term of July,” &c.
The indorsement on the back of each was as follows: “ State of New York and then followed the names of the plaintiffs and defendants.-
p. 94
Defendants stated that they, should have pleaded in the suit, if they had known what court they were required to plead in.
A. Worden, defendants' counsel.
Seth 0. Hart, defendants' attorney.
M. T. Reynolds, plaintiffs' counsel.
Sill, Kidder & Bradford, plaintiffs' attorneys.

Granted the motion, with $10 costs, with leave to plaintiffs to amend, by inserting in the narrs the title of the court, and the defendants leave to plead in twenty days after service of amended declaration.