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

Case No. 7,251.
    JEFFERS v. FORREST.
    [5 Cranch, C. C. 674.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    March Term, 1840.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   Debt upon an appeal-bond in the penalty of $100. The breach assigned was in not prosecuting the appeal with effect. The defendant [Joseph Forrest] pleaded that the appellant [Madison Jeffers] died pending the appeal, and that at the third term after the death the appeal was abated and discontinued.

Upon demurrer, judgment was rendered for the defendant.