Hall v. Lanning
Supreme Court of the United States
Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Northern District of Illinois, This was an action of debt brought on a judgment rendered in. New York against tbe plaintiffs in error. One of them, Lybrand, pleaded separately nul tiel record, and several special pleas questioning tbe validity of tbe judgment as against him for want of jurisdiction over bis person.
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Error to tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe Northern District of Illinois, This was an action of debt brought on a judgment rendered in. New York against tbe plaintiffs in error. One of them, Lybrand, pleaded separately nul tiel record, and several special pleas questioning tbe validity of tbe judgment as against him for want of jurisdiction over bis person. On tbe trial, tbe plaintiff simply gave in evidence tbe record of tbe judgment recovered in New York, which showed tbai! an attorney bad appeared and put in an answer for both defendants, who were sued as partners. The- answer…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The question to be decided in this case is, whether, after the dissolution of a copartnership, one of the partners in a suit brought against the firm has authority to enter an appearance for the other partners who do not reside in the State where the suit is brought, and have not been served with process \ and, if not, whether a judgment against all the partners, founded on such an appearance, can be questioned by those not served with process in a suit brought thereon in another State. We recently had occasion, in the case of Thompson v. Whitman, 18 Wall. 457,to restate the rule, that the…
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