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Case No. 2,515.
    CATLETT v. COOKE.
    [2 Cranch. C. C. 9.]
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    July Term, 1810.
    JUDGMENT BY CONFESSION— FlElil- FACIAS — DEATH of Plaintiff.
    In Virginia a judgment on confession is equal to a release of errors, and this bourt will not grant a writ of error coram vobis upon a suggestion of the death of the plaintiff, where the justice of the case does not seem to require it; nor will they quash a fieri facias issued in favor of the plaintiff's administrator upon a suggestion of The death of the administrator after the award of execution.
    Motion by Mr. Swann, for the defendant [Leonard T. Cooke], for writ of error coram vobis. on the ground that the plaintiff died before judgment.
    The judgment was confessed, and there had been a forthcoming bond, and an execution thereon by the administrator of Catlett, and a writ of error thereupon to the supreme court, where the judgment was affirmed, and tfie cause remanded by mandate.
    This court refused to grant the writ of error (FITZHUGH. Circuit Judge, contra.) The confession of judgment by the act of assembly of Virginia of the 19th December, 1792, p. 113, § 43, is equal to a release of errors. It is not necessary for the justice of the case that the writ should be granted.
    
      Mr. Swann then moved to quash a fieri facias issued by Manning, the administrator of Cat-lett. because Manning died after the award ■of execution.
   THE COURT

refused to quash it. (FITZ-HUGB, Circuit Judge, contra.)