Case Name: STONE v. STONE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1816-06
Citations: 23 F. Cas. 162
Docket Number: 
Parties: STONE v. STONE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 23
Pages: 162–162

Head Matter:
Case No. 13,488.
STONE v. STONE.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 119.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
June Term, 1816.
Pleading at Law — Non Assumpsit — Former Recovery.
The defendant upon non assumpsit, may give in evidence a former recovery of judgment against him upod an attachment in a court in Virginia; and such former judgment is a good bar to the action here.
Assumpsit [by William Stone against Edward Stone] for money had and received.
The defendant, at the trial, upon non as-sumpsit, produced a record of a judgment by attachment against him, in Virginia, for the same cause of action, at the suit of the plaintiff, and prayed the court to instruct the jury that if they were satisfied by the evidence that it was for the same cause of action, the plaintiff could not recover in this suit, which instruction the court gave. (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent.)
Hr. Wiley, for plaintiff.
Jones & Key, for defendant

Opinion:
Motion by the plaintiff's counsel, for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection of the jury by the court Refused.