Case ID: dc_1/html/0328-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "The Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Frazier v. Lomax.
    Upon .executing a writ of inquiry upon a judgment by default, the jury must find at least one mill in damages.
    Upon the execution of a writ of inquiry.
    
      Mr. Youngs, for the plaintiff,
    said the practice was to find a cent, without any evidence, the default having admitted something to be due. *
    
   The Court

instructed the jury that they might and ought to find the smallest possible sum due, which was one mill, being the smallest money of account known in the United States. Verdict accordingly.