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

Case No. 8,742.
    McCUTCHEN v. HILLEARY.
    [1 Cranch, C. C. 173.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    July Term, 1804.
    Costs — Security for — Party Removed from District.
    The defendant may require security for costs, from a plaintiff who has removed from the district since the commencement of the action.
   Assault and battery. The defendant [Nicholas Hilleary] stated that since the bringing this suit the plaintiff [James McCutchen] had removed from the district to Philadelphia, and has there fixed his residence, &e. Motion by the defendant’s counsel to lay a rule on the plaintiff to give security for costs. Granted.

KILTY, Chief Judge, doubting.