Case Name: Roger Boyce's Administrator against Samuel Young's Executrix
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1791-05
Citations: 3 Md. 84
Docket Number: 
Parties: Roger Boyce’s Administrator against Samuel Young’s Executrix.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 3
Pages: 84–85

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1791.
Roger Boyce’s Administrator against Samuel Young’s Executrix.
CERTIORARI to remove a record on a scire facias upon a judgment in Baltimore county court.
The pleas were, payment, and nul tiel record; general replications and issues joined. Verdict for the plaintiff, and the following point was saved, at October term, 1790, for the opinion of the court, viz :
The verdict of the jury, if given against the defendant, to be subject to the opinion of the court, whether payment to the deputy sheriff on a capias ad satisfaciendum, is good evidence to support the defendant’s plea, a default against the sheriff having been first entered.
Martin, Attorney-General, for the defendant.
A, Hall, for the plaintiff.

Opinion:
The general court gave judgment, on the point saved, for the plaintiff.