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

Case No. 18,060.
    WRAY v. RILEY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 361.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1806.
    Foreign Judgment—Motion to Discharge— Special Bail.
    In Virginia, special bail in an action of debt upon judgment rendered iii one of the other states, cannot be required by the indorsement of an attorney.
    [See Case No. 18,059.]
    Motion by E. J. Lee to discharge the special bail which had been required by an in-dorsement of the plaintiff’s attorney. The action was debt on a judgment recovered in the state of Georgia.
    E. J. Lee. The case of judgment is not provided for by the Virginia statute of December 12, 1792, p. 78, in which bail may be required by an indorsement of an attorney. Ruffin v. Call, 2 Wash. [Va.] 181; Bidleson v. Whytel, 3 Burrows, 1548; Belither v. Gibbs, 4 Burrows, 2117; Bowen v. Barnett, Sayer, 160.
    Exoneretur ordered.
   DUCKETT, Circuit Judge,

absent.