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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 4,656.
    FARMERS’ & MECHANICS’ BANK v. MELVIN et al.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 614.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1825.
    J. Dunlop, for the other creditors,
    Mr. Marbury, contra,
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   But

THE COURT

(MORSELL, Circuit Judge,

not sitting) decided that as there was no time when the administrator could plead it, and as the act is peremptory, the judgment must be taken, prima facie, to be void; and rejected the claim.