Case Name: Fisher vs. The State use of Johnson
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1803-05
Citations: 1 H. & J. 416
Docket Number: 
Parties: Fisher vs. The State use of Johnson.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the General Court and Court of Appeals of the State of Maryland, form 1800 ... [to 1826]
Volume: 1
Pages: 416–416

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1803.
Fisher vs. The State use of Johnson.
■Where there is an award returned in favour of the plaintiff in an action of debt on bond, the judgment must be entered for the penalty of the bond, &c.
A writ of dimi-mutton granted to correct a judgment entered for the sum awarded 3ii an action of debt on bond, instead of being entered for the penalty of the bond,
Error to Harford county court. It was an action of debt upon a bond, which had been referred by the county court to arbitrators, who awarded a particular sum to he due, and for which sum the court entered judgment.
Johnson, for the defendant in error,
stated that the judgment had been incorrectly entered by the county court. That it ought to have been for the penalty of the bond, or amount of the debt for which the suit had been brought, and costs, to be released on payment of the sum awarded. He moved, under the authority of the case of Duvall vs. Wells, (4 Harr. 8f M(Hen. 163,) for a writ of diminution to the county court, that the judgment might be corrected, and, a proper record transmitted to this court.
Hall and Hollingsworth, for the Plaintiff in error.

Opinion:
Writ of diminution granted
The county court returned a record of the judgment se amended, which was afterwards affirmed at October term 1804.