Case Name: Wilson v. Stewart et al.
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1803-06
Citations: 1 Cranch 128
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wilson v. Stewart et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 128–128

Head Matter:
Wilson v. Stewart et al.
In a ehancery attachment against a British bankrupt, the Court will permit the assignees of such bankrupt, on giving security and producing a copy of the proceedings of the commissioners certified, by a notary-public, at Liverpool, in England, who is certified to be such by the American consul at Liverpool, to be made parties to defend the suit, and to release the attached effects.
Attachment in chancery. Security given, attachment dissolved.
Mr. C. Lee
moved that the assignees of Stewart, under a commission of bankruptcy taken out in England, might be admitted as defendants. And to show that they were the assignees, he offered a copy of the proceedings of the commissioners, certified by a notary-public at Liverpool, and a certificate of the American, consul at Liverpool, that the notary was a notary-public duly commissioned, &c. Act of Assembly, Rev. Code, 168.
Mr. Taylor
objected that this copy is not within the Act of Assembly, and there is no law authorizing such copy to be admitted as evidence.
Objection overruled, and the assignees made defendants.
Mr. C. Lee
moved that Stewart might be admitted to answer by his attorney in fact.

Opinion:
The Court
did not refuse to suffer the answer by attorney to be filed.