Case ID: johns_9/html/0259-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

M'Gill against Perrigo and others.
    a suit by scire must be laitUn the county in which the ve* ntie was laid in the original action.
    INGALLS, for the defendants, moved to change the venue in this cause, which was a scire facias on a judgment, from Albany to Washington county, where the venue in the original action was
    , Wendell, contra»
   Per Curiam.

A scire facias to revive a judgment is a continuation of a former suit; and the venue ought to be laid in the county in which it was laid in the original action. The English practice is decisive. (Chitty's Plead. 272. Tidd’s Prac. 1035. Hob. 4. Yelv. 218. Cro. Jac. 231.)

Rule granted.