Clagget v. Blanchard

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

Blanchard sued out a warrant from a Justice of the Peace, against Clagget and Kimmel, to answer “ in a plea of debt for fifty dollars, due by acceptance for hardware.” The warrant having been executed on Clagget, and returned as to Kimmel ‘not found,’ the Justice rendered judgment against the ‘defendants,’for fifty dollars *42debt, and one dollar the cost; from which Clagget appealed to the Circuit Court; and in that Court, the jury having found a verdict for the plaintiff for fifty four dollars and fifty cents, a judgment was rendered against the…