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- Title: James White, Plaintiff v. Hiram Turk
- Author : United States Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 01, 1838
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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This is a case certified to this Court from the circuit court of the United States for the eastern district of Tennessee. A petition was filed by the defendants, Vaughan and Grant, stating that a judgment had been rendered in that court, in favour of the plaintiff, against the said Turk, at the October term, 1834, for the sum of eight hundred and ninety-three dollars sixty-seven cents; that said Turk had been arrested upon a ca. sa., issued upon said judgment, and that the other two defendants had become his sureties in a bond, with condition that he should make his personal appearance at the court-house in Knoxville, on the second Monday of October next thereafter; then and there to pay a debt recovered by James White, in said suit against said Turk, for eight hundred and sixty-six dollars, twenty-one and a half cents, take the oath of insolvency, or make a surrender of his property, as prescribed by the laws of the state; otherwise, the bond to remain in full force and virtue: that this bond, together with the ca. sa. had been returned to said court at its October term, 1835, and judgment rendered thereon against all the defendants; upon a motion, and without notice to them of the motion. For reasons stated in the petition, they prayed for and obtained a supersedeas.