Forseth v. Shaw
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
This was a writ oí error, by which a judgment of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden in this county in April last, rendered in an action wherein the said Shaw was plaintiff and the said Forseth was defendant, was brought before the Court.
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This was a writ oí error, by which a judgment of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden in this county in April last, rendered in an action wherein the said Shaw was plaintiff and the said Forseth was defendant, was brought before the Court. The original action was in case, and was grounded on the ninth section of the statute of 1794, c. 66, (entitled, “An Act to enable creditors to receive their just demands out of the goods, effects, and credits, of their debtors, when the same cannot be attached by the ordinary process of law,”) by which section it is enacted that any person summoned as…
1Opinion of the CourtSew all, J.
The plaintiff in this writ of error was defendant in the proceed mgs certified from the Circuit Court of Common Pleas; and the judg *260ment, now excepted to as erroneous, was there rendered against him for a sum of money, as due to the present defendant in error, or as recoverable for damages in the suit instituted by him. The errors now assigned are exceptions to the declaration of the writ in which that suit commenced. The declaration is said to be insufficient in law, as the foundation of a judgment, in several particulars ; and there is one exception to the form of the award and report by…
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