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

Case No. 11,806.
    RICKETTS et al. v. HENDERSON.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 157.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    Nov. Term, 1818.
    ‘Judgment — Action- uros- — Personal Service.
    A judgment against the principal debtor, in a foreign attachment in Pennsylvania, is not evidence, in the District of Columbia, of a debt due by that debtor.
    Debt, on a judgment in Pennsylvania on a foreign attachment
    Mr. Taylor, for defendant,
    contended that as the judgment was rendered without any personal notice to the defendant, it was not even prima facie evidence of a debt. Robinson v. Ward’s Ex’rs, 8 Johns. 89; Kilbum v. Woodworth, 5 Johns. 87; and Buchannan’s Case, 9 East, 192.
    Mr. Swann, for plaintiff.
   THE COURT,

having taken time to consider, rendered judgment for the defendant, on the authority of the eases cited by the-defendant’s counsel.