Case ID: us_2/html/0401-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Auguft Term, 1791.
    West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
    
    ON the firft day of the term, Bradford prefented to the court, a writ, purporting to.be a writ of error, iflued out pf the oflice of the clerk of the circuit court for Rhode JJland diftrift, • directed to th.at,court, 'and commanding a return of the judgment and proceedings rendered by them in this caufe ; And thereupon he moved for a rule, that the defendant rejoin to the errors affighed in this caufe.
    
      Barnes, one of the defendants,
    (a counféllor of .the court) objected to the validity of- the writ, that it had iflued out of the wrong office: and, after argument,-
   The Court

were unanimouily of opinion, That writs of error to remove caufes to this .court from inferior courts, can regularly iflue only from the clerk’s office of this court. '

Motion refufed.