Perkins v. Fourniquet
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal- from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. It is stated, in the report of the preceding case, that, at December, term, 1851, a case of Fourniquet and wife, against Perkins; came, up from Mississippi, and the decree of the Circuit. Court was here affirmed by a divided court. It was, therefore, not reported.
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This was an appeal- from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Mississippi. It is stated, in the report of the preceding case, that, at December, term, 1851, a case of Fourniquet and wife, against Perkins; came, up from Mississippi, and the decree of the Circuit. Court was here affirmed by a divided court. It was, therefore, not reported. Thg proceedings under the mandate, and the question^ which arose thereon, are set forth in the following opinion of the court:'
1Opinion of the Court
Mr. Chief Justice T ANEY,
delivered the opinion of the court.. It appears, in this case; that on the 22d of May,. 1849, the Circuit Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, passed a decree in favor of the appellees, against the appellant, directing him to pay the sum of $16,496.61, within thirty days thereafter, with legal interest, from the date of the said decree, or, in default thereof, the appellees to have execution against the appellant.
This decree was affirmed at the last term of - this court, with costs and damages, at the rate of six per cent.'per annum '; and a mandate issued…
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