diff --git a/src/duktape/proxy.c b/src/duktape/proxy.c
index 4d24e3710d..070cec10cb 100644
--- a/src/duktape/proxy.c
+++ b/src/duktape/proxy.c
@@ -396,14 +396,13 @@ PyObject* DukFunction_call(DukObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
 {
     duk_context *ctx = self->context->ctx;
     Py_ssize_t nargs, i;
-    int return_none = 0;
-    PyObject *result;
+    int return_none = 0, ret = 0;
+    PyObject *result, *temp;
 
     /* NULL if no parent */
     PyObject *this = (PyObject *)self->parent;
 
     if (kw) {
-        PyObject *temp;
 
         temp = PyDict_GetItemString(kw, "this");
         if (temp)
@@ -435,9 +434,19 @@ PyObject* DukFunction_call(DukObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kw)
     }
 
     if (this)
-        duk_call_method(ctx, (duk_idx_t)nargs);
+        ret = duk_pcall_method(ctx, (duk_idx_t)nargs);
     else
-        duk_call(ctx, (duk_idx_t)nargs);
+        ret = duk_pcall(ctx, (duk_idx_t)nargs);
+
+    if (ret != DUK_EXEC_SUCCESS) {
+        temp = duk_to_python(ctx, -1);
+        duk_pop(ctx);
+        if (temp) {
+            PyErr_SetObject(JSError, temp);
+            Py_DECREF(temp);
+        } else PyErr_SetString(PyExc_RuntimeError, "The was an error during call(), but the error could not be read of the stack");
+        return NULL;
+    }
 
     if (return_none) {
         /* Always return None. This saves converting the function's
diff --git a/src/duktape/tests.py b/src/duktape/tests.py
index 8f12b84909..bbc11e4a90 100644
--- a/src/duktape/tests.py
+++ b/src/duktape/tests.py
@@ -106,6 +106,14 @@ class ValueTests(unittest.TestCase):
         self.g.obj1 = {'a': 42}
         self.g.obj2 = self.g.obj1
         self.assertEqual(self.g.obj1.a, self.g.obj2.a)
+        self.ctx.eval('function f() {nonexistent()}')
+        try:
+            self.g.f()
+            self.assert_('No error raised for bad function')
+        except JSError as e:
+            e = e.args[0]
+            self.assertEqual('ReferenceError', e.name)
+            self.assertIn('nonexistent', e.toString())
 
 
 class EvalTests(unittest.TestCase):