Case Name: Beatty's Administrator v. Van Ness, Administrator of Burnes
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1812-12
Citations: 2 Cranch 67
Docket Number: 
Parties: Beatty’s Administrator v. Van Ness, Administrator of Burnes.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 67–67

Head Matter:
Beatty’s Administrator v. Van Ness, Administrator of Burnes.
The Court will permit the plea of limitations to be filed after the rule-day, upon an affidavit showing it to be a fair defence under the circumstances of the case.
Assumpsit for money had and received, brought under the Act of Maryland, 1791, c. 45, § 5, to try the title to some city lots claimed by the plaintiff’s intestate.
The defendant, after the rule-day, moved to file the plea of limitations, upon his affidavit that he ordered the plea to be filed by his attorney before the rule-day. That his attorney was absent attending the trial of Wilkinson; that Burnes had been in possession more than twenty years, &c.

Opinion:
The Court
(nem. con.) upon this affidavit, permitted the plea to be filed, considering it a fair defence under the circumstances.