Case Name: SIMPSON v. LEGG
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1817-04
Citations: 22 F. Cas. 173
Docket Number: 
Parties: SIMPSON v. LEGG.
Judges: (THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent).
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 22
Pages: 173–173

Head Matter:
Case No. 12,883.
SIMPSON v. LEGG.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 132.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1817.
Judgment — Motion—Bond to Secure Rent.
Judgment by motion, on notice, cannot be obtained on a bond given to secure rent upon an attachment on a suggestion that a tenant is about to remove.
Motion for judgment on a bond given to secure rent upon an attachment issued upon a suggestion that the tenant was about to remove. See St. Va. Nov. 29, 1792, p. 154, § 8.
Mr. Swann, for defendant.
The act of assembly does not authorize summary judgment on such a bond.

Opinion:
And so it was decided by
THE COURT
(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, absent).