Case Name: Cornelius Coolidge and Another versus Samuel Cary
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1817-03
Citations: 13 Tyng 115
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cornelius Coolidge and Another versus Samuel Cary.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 14
Pages: 102–102

Head Matter:
Cornelius Coolidge and Another versus Samuel Cary.
Bail may surrender the principal in court by attorney.
After a defendant is defaulted, judgment is entered of course, unless there be good reason for postponing it, as a prior attachment of property by other ' creditors.
The defendant’s bail, by J. T. Austin, his attorney, offered to' surrender him into the custody of the Court, to discharge himself of his suretiship.
It was objected by Aylwin, for the plaintiffs, that this could not be done by attorney; but the Court overruled the objection, and the surrender was made.
The defendant having afterwards been defaulted, his counsel moved that judgment be entered as of that day of the term, with a view that the thirty days might commence, within which the plaintiffs must charge him in execution, or he be discharged from his imprisonment.
Aylwin.
The plaintiffs do not move for judgment.

Opinion:
By the Court.
After the default of the defendant, judgment goes, of course, unless there be good reason for postponing it, as where there is a prior attachment of property. There is no sufficient reason for delay in the present case.
Let judgment he entered.