Case Name: Wilson's Administrator v. Turberville's Executors
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1808-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 492
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wilson’s Administrator v. Turberville’s Executors.
Judges: (Duckett, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 492–492

Head Matter:
Wilson’s Administrator v. Turberville’s Executors.
In actions against executors and administrators, the statute of limitations may be pleaded after office judgment.
This cause having been referred, but no issue made up, and the award having beén set aside at the last term, and the cause standing on an office judgment and writ of inquiry,—
Mr. Swann, for the defendant,
moved to plead the statute of limitations, which
Mr. E. J. Lee, for the plaintiff,
opposed, and produced the will of Turberville, by which he orders all his just debts to be paid, and contended that that would be a good bar to the plea of the statute, and that the court would not suffer a nugatory plea to be pleaded.

Opinion:
But the Court
(Duckett, J., absent,)
admitted the plea, it. being in a case of executors, and referred to the case of Dean v. Flannery & Wife, Executors of Turner, at November term, 1807, where the plea was admitted after office judgment.