Legal Opinion
Hopkirk v. Bell
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 18, 1806PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
7 U.S. 454
3 Cranch 454
2 L.Ed. 497
HOPKIRK
v.
BELL.
February Term, 1806
1
THIS was a case certified from the circuit court for the fifth circuit, and Virginia district, in chancery sitting, in which the opinions of the judges (Marshall, Ch. J. and Griffin, district judge) were opposed upon the following question:
2
'Whether the act of assembly of Virginia for the limitation of actions pleaded by the defendant was, under all the circumstances stated, a bar to the plaintiff's demand founded on a promissory note given on the 21st day of August, 1773?'
3
The certificate contained the following statement of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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