Case ID: dc_2/html/0157-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ricketts et al. v. Henderson.
    A judgment against the principal debtor, in a foreign attachment in Pennsylvania, is not evidence, in the District of Columbia, of a debt due by that debtor.
    Debt, on a judgment in Pennsylvania on a foreign attachment.
    
      Mr. Taylor, for the defendant,
    contended that as the judgment was rendered without any personal notice to the defendant, it was not even prima facie evidence of a debt. Robinson v. Ward, 8 Johns. 89 ; Kilburn v. Woodworth, 5 Johns. 37; and Buchan-nan's case, 9 East.
    
      Mr. Sioann, for the plaintiff.
   The Court,

having taken time to consider, rendered judgment for the defendant, on the authority of the cases cited by the defendant’s counsel.