Legal Opinion

Hilton v. Beck

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia

Decided December 15, 1830Published

Replevin, for goods of the plaintiff, taken by the defendant, a constable, as the goods of one Harrington, upon a fieri facias against him.

1Opinion of the Court

The defendant, Beck, was permitted by the Court to testify for himself, upon being indemnified by the plaintiff in the fieri facias.

See the case of Wise v. Bowen, in this Court, at April term, 1821, [2 Cranch, C. C. 239,] arid Dixon v. Waters, at December term, 1824, Id. 527.