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Case No. 12,083.
    ROTCHFORD v. MEADE.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 650.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov., 1829.
    Replevin — Cognizance—Joinder of Counts.
    In replevin, several counts cannot be joined in the cognizance.
    
      The defendant made cognizance in three counts: 1st. As bailiff of Scholfield, attorney of Harper; 2d. As bailiff of Harper; and, 3d. As bailiff of Scholfield. upon his own seizin. The plaintiff demurred specially to the cognizance, for duplicity. The Virginia statute only gives to plaintiffs in replevin the right to plead double; nor to the defendants.
   THE COURT

(nem. con.) was of opinion that several counts cannot be joined, in cognizance in replevin; and especially claims in different rights, which could not be joined in a declaration.

Judgment for the plaintiff on the demurrer.