Case Name: Reynolds against Lammond
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1808-11
Citations: 3 Johns. 540
Docket Number: 
Parties: Reynolds against Lammond.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 3
Pages: 540–540

Head Matter:
Reynolds against Lammond.
NEW-YORK,
Nov. 1808.
Where a person obtained a judgment before a justice, for 'll dollars, and enlisted as a soldier in the army of the United States, and the judgment was afterwards reversed in this court, with costs, amounting to more than 20 dollars, it was held, that the costs referred back to the time of the original judgment, and that the defendant in error was not entitled to be discharged from an execution issued on the judgment of reversal.
SEDGWICK moved to set aside- the capias ad satisfaciendum issued against" the defendant in this cause, for irregularity. The defendant had obtained a judgment before a justice, against the present plaintiff for 11 dollars, on which a certiorari was brought to this court, and at the last term, the judgment below was reversed, and a judgment of reversal in this court was entered, and on which the costs amounted to above 20 dollars. On the 26th July last, the defendant enlisted as a soldier in the army of the United States. It was contended, that the judgment of the costs on the reversal, being subsequent to his enlistment, no execution could issue against the defendant.
Foot, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The costs must be considered as referring back to the original judgment, and that being prior to the enlistment, and the sum above 20 dollars, the defendant is not entitled to a discharge. (See ante, p. 445.)
Rule refused.