Legal Opinion

Swett v. Sullivan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided March 15, 1811PublishedCited by 11 opinions

This was a scire facias against the defendant, as bail of Abraham Ogden, to obtain execution of a judgment recovered by the plaintiffs against the said Ogden, in this Court, November term, 1807, for the sum of 3693 dollars 83 cents debt or damage, and 136 dollars 90 cents costs.

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This was a scire facias against the defendant, as bail of Abraham Ogden, to obtain execution of a judgment recovered by the plaintiffs against the said Ogden, in this Court, November term, 1807, for the sum of 3693 dollars 83 cents debt or damage, and 136 dollars 90 cents costs. The defendant prays oyer of the bail bond, (which is dated May 23, 1803,) and then pleads in bar to the scire facias, that the original writ, upon which Ogden was arrested, was returnable to the Court of Common Pleas on the first Tuesday of July, 1803, when and where it was entered and continued to the then next…

1Opinion of the Court

The cause stood over to this term, when the opinion of the Court was delivered to the following effect by

Parsons, C. J.

In this writ, the plaintiffs pray execution of a judgment recovered by them against Abraham Ogden, at the November term of the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Boston, and 'or whom the defendant was bail.

The defendant has pleaded in bar of execution against him, that *290he was bail for Ogden, in a suit commenced against him by the plaintiffs, in which final judgment was recovered against Ogden, at the November term of the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Boston, in 1805, on…

2Cited by11 opinions

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  2. Champion v. NoyesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1807
  3. Safford v. KnightMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
  4. Lowther v. LawrenceOhio Supreme Court · 1833
  5. Russia Cement Co. v. Le Page Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899

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