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

Case No. 12,883.
    SIMPSON v. LEGG.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 132.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    April Term, 1817.
    Judgment — Motion—Bond to Secure Rent.
    Judgment by motion, on notice, cannot be obtained on a bond given to secure rent upon an attachment on a suggestion that a tenant is about to remove.
    Motion for judgment on a bond given to secure rent upon an attachment issued upon a suggestion that the tenant was about to remove. See St. Va. Nov. 29, 1792, p. 154, § 8.
    Mr. Swann, for defendant.
    The act of assembly does not authorize summary judgment on such a bond.
   And so it was decided by

THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent).