Case Name: CATLETT et ux. v. FAIRFAX
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1814-04
Citations: 5 F. Cas. 291
Docket Number: 
Parties: CATLETT et ux. v. FAIRFAX.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 5
Pages: 291–291

Head Matter:
Case No. 2,516.
CATLETT et ux. v. FAIRFAX.
[2 Cranch. C. C. 99.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1814.
Equity Practice — Enforcing Decree against Executor.
In Alexandria, an execution de bonis propriis. Is the proper process against an executor, upon a decree in equity for the balance of his administration account.
This was a motion to quash an execution against the defendant, de bonis propriis, on a decree in equity against him as executor ■of the will of Lord Fairfax, for the balance ■due upon the settlement of his administration ■account, to the plaintiff’s wife, daughter of the testator.
E. J. Lee, for the plaintiff,
stated that the ■execution in this form was according to the practice in the court of chancery in Virginia, and produced a certificate, to that effect, from Mr. Henning, the register of that court.

Opinion:
Motion overruled. (THRUSTOX, Circuit Judge, absent.)