Barton v. Petit
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR to the Cii’cuit Court for the District of li/;.7, • • The transeripl of the record which was sent up, began by staling that “ Heretofore to wit, at rules held in the. clerk’s office of the said Court in the month of December, in the year 1807, Andrew Petit and Andrew Bayard, by Philip N. .Nicholas, gent, their attorney aPPeaved and filed their certain bill against Seth Barton and Tilomas Fisher, which bill is in the following words, to wit: United States, fifth…
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ERROR to the Cii’cuit Court for the District of li/;.7, • • The transeripl of the record which was sent up, began by staling that “ Heretofore to wit, at rules held in the. clerk’s office of the said Court in the month of December, in the year 1807, Andrew Petit and Andrew Bayard, by Philip N. .Nicholas, gent, their attorney aPPeaved and filed their certain bill against Seth Barton and Tilomas Fisher, which bill is in the following words, to wit: United States, fifth Circuit, district of Virginia, to wit: Andrew Petit and Andrew Bayard, citizens and inhabitants of the state of Pennsylvania,…
1Opinion of the CourtWashington, J.
This was an action of debt brought in the Circuit Court for the district of Virginia by Petit and Bayard against Seth Barton and Tl.tomas Fisher, upon a judgment rendered in the General Court of Maryland. Tlie declaration is against the said Barton and Fisher, late merchants and partners, trading under the firm of Barton and Fisher, citizens and inhabitants of the state of Virginia, both of whom are alleged to be in the custody of the marshal. The record states that Barton, who had been arrested upon the capias, gave bail and put in the plea of payment, on which an issue was joined, and a…
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- Barton v. Petit and BayardSupreme Court of the United States · 1812