President of the Bank of Alabama v. Dalton
Supreme Court of the United States
This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi. The facts were these.
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This case was brought up, by writ of error, from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi. The facts were these. On the 7th of February, 1843, the President and Directors of the Bank of the State of Alabama recovered a judgment against Robert H. Dalton, for $ 1,844, with interest and costs, in the County Court of Tuscaloosa County and State of Alabama.- On thé 24th of February, 1844, the State of Mississippi passed an act (Hutchinson’s Mississippi Code, pp. 830 et seq.), which provided, amongst other things, that judgments rendered before the pássage of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Catron
An action was brought by the plaintiff to recover of the de- fendant, then a citizen of Mississippi, the sum of $ 1,84.4 debt, and $ 110 damages, the amount of a recovery had in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, and State of Alabama, on the 7th day of February, 1843, by the plaintiff against the defendant. This suit was instituted in the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Mississippi, at Pontotoc. The writ was issued on the 10th day of November, 1846. The defendant, at the December term, 1846, pleaded the statute of limitations of- 1844, which bars (1.) all…
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