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 (3) That the action is on an unliquidated demand without joining the principals.

Neither point has any real merit.

A right arising out of an obligation is the property of the person to whom it is due and may be transferred as such. Code, § 5783.

The lease and the bond were an obligation to pay a definite sum as rent. The right to the rent was the property of the lessor, and it was transferable as such. Besides, the lease was made a part of the bond, and it contained a covenant to pay the rent to the lessor, his heirs or assigns.

The second point is on the nonjoinder of the lessees, who, it appears, had left the state and had no property in the state. The evidence shows that an effectual joinder of the lessees was an impossibility, and the law neither does nor requires idle acts. Besides this, the defendants have waived the objection of nonjoinder. Such an objection must be taken by answer or demurrer. Code, §§ 7442-7447. If the complaint had shown that the lessees were alive and within the jurisdiction of the court, the objection might have been taken by demurrer. As the complaint made no such showing, defendants might have answered that the lessees were joint parties to the contract, and that they were alive and at a certain place within the state.

The third point has no shade of merit. This is not. an action for damages. It is an action on contract for a precise amount, and there is no claim that the judgment is for a cent more than is due.

Affirmed.

and, JJ., concur.

, C. J., and, J., concur in the result.