Case Name: Hale vs. Higgins
Court: United States Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina
Jurisdiction: North Carolina
Decision Date: 1793
Citations: 1 Mart. 58
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hale vs. Higgins.
Judges: 
Reporter: North Carolina Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 58–59

Head Matter:
Hale vs. Higgins.
Pasch. 1 Car.

Opinion:
RESOLVED, that where the words of the statute, were that the plaintiff shall have no more costs than damages &c. in an action &c. begun and prosecuted &c. and the action was commenced before the Parliament and prosecuted afterwards. The plaintiff shall have no more costs; although a man is said to prosecute an original writ, when he begins. But it was answered that the prosecution is after the commencement. Therefore &c. Antea p. 2. Sandal's case.