Case Name: Allen v. Greenwood
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-01
Citations: 1 Cranch 60
Docket Number: 
Parties: Allen v. Greenwood.
Judges: Kilty, C. J., doubting.
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: 60–60

Head Matter:
Allen v. Greenwood.
Attachment lies against an absconding debtor, under Virginia law, notwithstanding the 6th section of the Act concerning the District of Columbia.
Motion for judgment on attachment from a justice of the peace, under the Act of Virginia, 26 Dee. 1792, pp. 116, 117.
The affidavit stated that Greenwood, late of the county of Alexandria, &c., hath privately removed himself out of the county, &c. The question was whether this attachment will lie, notwithstanding the 6th section of the Act of Congress concerning the District of Columbia. [2 Stat. at Large, 103.]

Opinion:
The Court
ordered the judgment to be entered.
Kilty, C. J., doubting.