Case Name: HARTSHORNE et al. v. INGLE
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-04
Citations: 11 F. Cas. 719
Docket Number: 
Parties: HARTSHORNE et al. v. INGLE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 11
Pages: 719–719

Head Matter:
Case No. 6,170.
HARTSHORNE et al. v. INGLE.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 91.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
April Term, 1802.
Variance — Plea in Abatement — Office Judgment.
Variance between the capias and declaration cannot be pleaded to set aside an office judgment.
[Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.)

Opinion:
[This was a suit by Hartshorne and Sons against Ingle.) The declaration was in debt upon an award. The capias was in case. There had been an office judgment and writ of inquiry; to set aside which E. J. Lee, for defendant, offered to plead a variance between the writ and declaration, in abatement. But THE COURT refused.