Case Name: Auld, Assignee of W. Wilson, v. Hoyl, Administrator of Deakins
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1809-06
Citations: 1 Cranch 544
Docket Number: 
Parties: Auld, Assignee of W. Wilson, v. Hoyl, Administrator of Deakins.
Judges: (Duckett, J., absent,)
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: 544–544

Head Matter:
Auld, Assignee of W. Wilson, v. Hoyl, Administrator of Deakins.
A British subject who, before the treaty of 1794, took a bond in the name of a citizen of the United States, cannot avoid the statute of limitations, by claiming the benefit of the clause of the treaty which removed all legal impediments in the recovery of British debts.
Debt on bond — plea that the bond was of twelve years standing, and barred by the statute of limitations.
Replication that the bond was taken for a debt due to Dunlop & Co., British creditors, before the war, and that the British treaty removed that lawful impediment.

Opinion:
The Court
(Duckett, J., absent,)
adjudged the replication to be bad ; observing that if a British creditor covers his debt under the name of a citizen he must take citizen's law.