Case Name: Lindsay v. Twining
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-12
Citations: 1 Cranch 206
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lindsay v. Twining.
Judges: 
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: 206–207

Head Matter:
Lindsay v. Twining.
The Court will not, at a subsequent term, reinstate a cause which has been non prossed for want of security for costs.
Non pros, at last term for want of security for costs.
Mr. Woodward
moved to reinstate the cause, upon the affidavit of Colonel D. C. Brent, that he had directed the clerk to enter him security, but the plerk had failed so to do. The clerk stated that Colonel Brent had, in his office, told him he would get security.

Opinion:
Motion refused; the term being passed, and the clerk having no right to judge of the sufficiency of the security offered. It should have been offered to the Court. The clerk was in no default.