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

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    MINIFIE v. DUCKWORTH.
    
      [2 Cranch, C. C. 39.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Dec. Term, 1811.
    Justice of Peace — Appeal—Case Tried de Novo.
    Upon an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, the cause is to be tried de novo.
    
      
       [Reported by 'Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   THE COURT

said that the appeal suspended the judgment below, and the cause must be tried de novo, as if no judgment bad been rendered.