Legal Opinion

Hagan v. Walker

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided December 21, 1852PublishedCited by 52 opinions

■ This was an ^appeal from the District Court of- the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. The bill was originally filed-in the names of John Hagan, of New Orleans, and. a citizen of the State of Louisiana, and Thomas Barrett, of' New Orleans, and a citizen of the State of Louisiana, 'formerly commission merchants and partnfers, trading under the firm, name, and style of John Hagan & Co., complainants, against William H. Pope,-of Huntsville; and a citizen of…

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■ This was an ^appeal from the District Court of- the United States for the Northern District of Alabama. The bill was originally filed-in the names of John Hagan, of New Orleans, and. a citizen of the State of Louisiana, and Thomas Barrett, of' New Orleans, and a citizen of the State of Louisiana, 'formerly commission merchants and partnfers, trading under the firm, name, and style of John Hagan & Co., complainants, against William H. Pope,-of Huntsville; and a citizen of the State of Alabama, Samuel Breck, of Huntsville, and a citizen of the State of Alabama, the said Breck being the…

1Opinion of the Court

Mr? Justice CURTIS

delivered the opinion of the court.

John Hagan & Co. filed their bill in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Alabama, in which they state that, in the year 1834, they recovered a judgment at law in that court against Leroy Pope, for upwards of seven thousand dollars, which is wholly unsatisfied; that a writ of fieri facias, running against the lands, goods, and body of the debtor, was regularly issued, and, on the' 10th day of October, 1834, was returned nullá bona; and from that time to the filing of the bill, there has not been,' in that…

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