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

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company v. Barcroft et al.
    
    
      An execution upon a supersedeas judgment, confessed more than two months after the date of the original judgment, will be quashed.
   The Court

(nem. cm.) quashed the execution in this case, because'the supersedeas judgment, upon which it was issued, was not confessed until after the expiration of two months after the original judgment. See the following cases heretofore decided by this Court, namely, Hodgson v. Mountz & Knowles, at December term, 1806, (1 Cranch, C. C. 366); Smith v. Middleton, April term, 1821, (2 Cranch, C. C. 233); Mandeville v. Love, October term, 1821, (Id. 249); McSherry v. Queen et al., April term, 1823, (Id. 406); Holmes v. Bussard, April term, 1823, (Id. 401); and Thomas v. Elliot, October term, 1823, (Id. 432.)