Legal Opinion

Beers v. Haughton

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided February 28, 1835PublishedCited by 52 opinions

ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio. On the 14th of June 1830, the plaintiffs, citizens and residents of the state of New York, commenced their action of assumpsit in the United States circiiit court, for t.he district of Ohio, against Joseph Harris and Cornelius V. Harris,- of the state of Ohio, and recovered' judgment against them at the December term 1830, for 2846 dollars and 56 cents.

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ERROR to the circuit court of the United States for the district of Ohio. On the 14th of June 1830, the plaintiffs, citizens and residents of the state of New York, commenced their action of assumpsit in the United States circiiit court, for t.he district of Ohio, against Joseph Harris and Cornelius V. Harris,- of the state of Ohio, and recovered' judgment against them at the December term 1830, for 2846 dollars and 56 cents. In this action against the Harris’s, the present defendant, Haughton* became their special bail. ■On the 12th day of October 1831, a writ of capias ad satis-faciendum…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Story

This is a writ of error to the judgment, of the circuit court ■ for the district of Ohio.

*356The material facts are these. In June 1830, the plaintiffs in error (who are citizens of New York) brought an action of assumpsit in the circuit court of Ohio, against one Joseph Harris and Cornelius V. Harris, and at the December term of the court, recovered judgment for 2818 dollars and 86 cents, and costs. In this action the defendant, in error became special bail by recognizance, viz., that the Ha iris’s should pay and satisfy the judgment recovered against them, or render themselves into the custody…

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