Thomas v. Watson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
The bill in this case was filed on the 18th day of December, 1845, by [Philip F. Thomas] the permanent trustee of J. M. Lloyd. Its object was to obtain relief, by injunction, against a judgment for $6,571.95, recovered in this court on the 18th day of April, 1844, against the said Lloyd, by Henry H. Watson, a resident of the city of New York.
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The bill in this case was filed on the 18th day of December, 1845, by [Philip F. Thomas] the permanent trustee of J. M. Lloyd. Its object was to obtain relief, by injunction, against a judgment for $6,571.95, recovered in this court on the 18th day of April, 1844, against the said Lloyd, by Henry H. Watson, a resident of the city of New York. It stated that at the time of the confession of said judgment, Watson held two promissory notes of Lloyd, one of which amounted, principal and interest, at the date of the judgment, to about $4.328, and was given in consideration of a loan of money…
1Opinion of the Court
TANEX, Circuit Justice.
The court has taken time to examine this case with care, because the points raised in it are important, and some of them do not appear to have been fully settled by -judicial decisions.
The case, as it comes before the court, is this: James Murray Lloyd, named in the proceedings, gave two promissory notes to Watson, the defendant, upon which a suit was afterwards instituted in this court, and judgment confessed by Lloyd, on the 18th of April, 1844, with an agreement entered on the record that no execution should issue on the judgment, provided the amount was paid *976by tbe…
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- West v. BeanesCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1815