Case Name: CHESAPEAKE & O. CANAL CO. v. BARCROFT et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-11
Citations: 5 F. Cas. 560
Docket Number: 
Parties: CHESAPEAKE & O. CANAL CO. v. BARCROFT et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 5
Pages: 560–561

Head Matter:
Case No. 2,644.
CHESAPEAKE & O. CANAL CO. v. BARCROFT et al.
[4 Cranch, C. C. 659.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1835.
Confession of Supersedeas Judgment.
An execution upon a supersedeas judgment, confessed more than two months after the date of the original judgment, will be quashed.

Opinion:
THE COURT
(nem. eon.) quashed the execution in' this case, because the supersedeas judgment, upon which it was issued, was hot confessed until after the expiration of Lwo months after the original judgment. See the following cases heretofore decided by this court, namely, Hodgson y. Mountz, at December term, 1806 [Case No. 6,509]; Smith v. Middleton, April term, 1821 [Id. 13,079]; Mandeville v. Love, October term, 1S21 [Id. 9,012]; McSherry v. Queen, April term, 1823 [Id. 8,926]; Holmes v. Bussard, April term, 1823 [Id. 6,630]; and Thomas v. Elliot, Octo-oer term, 1S23 [Id. 13,896].