Turner v. Fendall

5 U.S. 116 (____)

1 Cranch 116

TURNER

v.

FENDALL.

Supreme Court of United States.

The case was now argued by Simms, for the plaintiff in error, and by C. Lee and Swann, for the defendant.

For the plaintiff in error, it was contended.

The Chief Justice delivered the opinion of the court.

This was a motion made by the defendant in error against the now plaintiff, in the circuit court at Alexandria, under an act of the Virginia assembly, which declares that "if any sheriff, under sheriff or other officer, shall make return on any writ of fieri facias, or venditioni exponas, that he hath levied the debt,…