Mason v. Haile
Supreme Court of the United States
THIS ’ was an action of debt, brought in the Circuit Court: of Rhode Island, upon two several bonds given by the defendant, Haile, to the plaintiff, Mason, and one Bates, whom the plaintiff survives, one of which bonds was executed oft the 14th, and the other on the 29th of March, 1814. The condition in both bonds was the same, ’except as to dates and sums,'and is as follows : “ The.condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounden Nathan Haile, now a…
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THIS ’ was an action of debt, brought in the Circuit Court: of Rhode Island, upon two several bonds given by the defendant, Haile, to the plaintiff, Mason, and one Bates, whom the plaintiff survives, one of which bonds was executed oft the 14th, and the other on the 29th of March, 1814. The condition in both bonds was the same, ’except as to dates and sums,'and is as follows : “ The.condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above bounden Nathan Haile, now a prisoner in the State’s jail, in Providence, within the county of Providence, at the suit of Mason and Bates, do, and shall…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
The question in this case arises upon the following certificate of a division of opinion of the judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Rhode Island. “ This cause came on to be heard, and was argued by counsel on both sides, and. thereupon the following question occurred : viz. whether, upon rhe amended pleas in this case, severa ly pleaded to the first and .second counts of the *375plaintiff’s declaration, and to which there are. demurrers, and joinders in demurrer, the defendant is entitled to judgment, on the ground that the' matters set forth therein, on the part…
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