The Insurance Company of the Valley of Virginia, in Error v. Moses C. Mordecai
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the western district of Virginia.
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This case was brought up by writ of error from the Circuit Court of the United States, for the western district of Virginia. It was an action of debt, brought by Mordecai, (a citizen of South Carolina,) upon a judgment which he had obtained against the insurance company, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of South Carolina. •'A judgment ■ was given also for Mordecai in the Circuit Court of Virginia, from which the insurance company sued out a writ of error in October, 1858, which was made returnable to this court on the “ second Monday in January next,” (being the…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The defendant in error, on the 8th of October, 1858, obtained a judgment against the plaintiffs in error in the District Court of the United States for. the western district of Virginia.
Oil the 18th. of the same month, this writ of error was sued out, and .made returnable on the second Monday in January-then next ensuing — in other words, it was made returnable on the second Monday in January, in the present term of this eourt; and the defendant in error was cited to appear here on that day. ' ’
A motion has been made to dismiss the case, upon the ’ ground that, in order to bring the judgment…
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