Washington v. Hodgskin
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an attachment cause, commenced on the 22nd June, 1841, upon the following proofs : The State of Mississippi, Hinds County, Set: Be it remembered, that on this 2nd of June, 1841, personally appears before me, Isaac R. JYicholson, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the State of Mississippi, fully commissioned and qualified as such, William II Washington, a resident and citizen of said State, and made oath on the Holy…
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Appeal from Prince George’s county court. This was an attachment cause, commenced on the 22nd June, 1841, upon the following proofs : The State of Mississippi, Hinds County, Set: Be it remembered, that on this 2nd of June, 1841, personally appears before me, Isaac R. JYicholson, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of the State of Mississippi, fully commissioned and qualified as such, William II Washington, a resident and citizen of said State, and made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that John T. Boteler is bona fide indebted to him, the said William H. Washington, in the sum of…
1Opinion of the CourtStephen, J.
The appeal in this case was, we think, properly taken from the judgment of the court belowq quashing the attachment, and not from the refusal of the court to grant a re-hearing. There is but one question in the case, which it is necessary to decide, and that relates to the sufficiency of the Governor’s certificate, as to the power of the judge to administer the oath, *356which was taken before him by the attaching creditor. The judge, after stating that the oath was taken before him, attaches to the foot of his certificate the following attestation •. “Sworn to before me, this 2nd June, 1841. I.…
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