Biddle v. Wilkins
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the District Court of the United States, for the Mississippi district. This was an action of debt brought in the Court below, upon a judgment obtained by the,plaintiff as administrator against the defendant^ in the District Court'of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania.
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ERROR to the District Court of the United States, for the Mississippi district. This was an action of debt brought in the Court below, upon a judgment obtained by the,plaintiff as administrator against the defendant^ in the District Court'of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania. The declaration'was in the common form, averring the recovery by plaintiff as administrator, See. ■ The defendant pleaded three pleas in bar. 1. Ne ungues administrator. 2. That in January 1817, in the Orphans’ Court of the county of Adams, in the state of Mississippi, the defendant was duly…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Thompson
delivered the opinion-of the Court.—
This case comes up from'the.District,Court of the United States, for the-Mississippi-district, -upon a writ of error.;
The action, in the Court b'elow, was founded- upon á judgment obtained in. the District Court of the United States for the western district of Pennsylvania, in- the term, of October; in the year -1823, for tfie sum of 32,957 dollars-and 34 cents..The'declaration is-in the-usual.form of; an-action df debt on a judgment.
The defendant pleads in bar — 1. That' the plaintiff is not, ánd never was, administrator of John Wilkins, -deceased.- 2.…
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