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Magniac v. Thomson

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 30, 1854PublishedCited by 57 opinions

This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting as a court of'equity.

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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, sitting as a court of'equity. Magniac & Company, being English subjects, had two judgments against Thomson, one in the Circuit Court of the United States for Pennsylvania, in 1827, and the other in the Circuit Court for New Jersey, in .1829. On ths 1st April, 1829, the appellants sued out a "writ of capias ad satisfaciendum on the judgment in the Circuit Court of the United States for the. Eastern District of Pennsylvania to April session, 1829, to which the marshal, on the 8th April,…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Daniel

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

The appellants, by their bill in the Circuit Court, alleged that, being creditors of the appellee in a very large amount of money previously lent and advanced to him, they, in the year 1828, instituted then.- action for its recovery on the law side of the court, when it was agreed, by writing filed of record, that a judgment •should be entered against the. appellee as of the 26th of November, 1827, in favor of the appellants, for the sum of $22,191.71. That this judgment, with a…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. United States v. StansburySupreme Court of the United States · 1828

3Cited by57 opinions

  1. Hedges v. Dixon CountySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Wade v. S. J. Groves & Sons Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1981
  3. York v. TriggSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1922
  4. De Mattos v. McGovernCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1938
  5. Joel v. JoelMississippi Supreme Court · 2010

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