Legal Opinion

Okely v. Boyd

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

Decided June 15, 1819PublishedCited by 2 opinions

This was an actios of replevin against the marshal of the District of Columbia, to re-plevy the plaintiff's goods taken in execution upon two writs of fieri facias issued by the clerk of this court on the 19th of June, 1816 (Nos. 7 and 8 on the judicial docket of December term, 1816), one for $1,000, and the other for $900, upon the order of the president of the Bank of Columbia, in virtue of the authority vested in him by the 14th section of Act Md. 1793, c. 30, entitled…

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This was an actios of replevin against the marshal of the District of Columbia, to re-plevy the plaintiff's goods taken in execution upon two writs of fieri facias issued by the clerk of this court on the 19th of June, 1816 (Nos. 7 and 8 on the judicial docket of December term, 1816), one for $1,000, and the other for $900, upon the order of the president of the Bank of Columbia, in virtue of the authority vested in him by the 14th section of Act Md. 1793, c. 30, entitled “An act to establish a bank in the District of Columbia.”' by which it was enacted, “that whenever any person or persons…

1Opinion of the Court

THE COURT

quashed the execution for $1000 (No. 7) nem. con., and the execution for $900 (No. 8). MORSELL, Circuit Judge, •dissenting.

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. CardinasTexas Supreme Court · 1877
  2. Hogue v. PennCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1868

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