Case Name: MARY RICHARDSON'S Administrator de bonis non vs. JOHN VANDEVER'S Executor and terre-tenants
Court: Delaware Superior Court
Jurisdiction: Delaware
Decision Date: 1836
Citations: 2 Harr. 66
Docket Number: 
Parties: MARY RICHARDSON’S Administrator de bonis non vs. JOHN VANDEVER’S Executor and terre-tenants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Delaware Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 66–66

Head Matter:
MARY RICHARDSON’S Administrator de bonis non vs. JOHN VANDEVER’S Executor and terre-tenants.
In' a scire facias on an old judgment, where the nan', could not be found, the court permitted a narr. to be filed nunc pro tunc.
Scire Facias on a judgment in debt, without writ, for £134, with interest from the 10th March 1795. Pleas, nul tiel record and payment.
The scire facias set out a judgment for £268, The record produced was of a judgment confessed in the old form, as follows:—
“ Hugh Latimer, surviving administrator of Mary Richardson, dei ceased vs. John Vandever. Debt without writ. The defendant, by James M. Broom his attorney specially constituted, comes and confesses judgment to the plaintiff for the sum in the narr., with costs. &c. .June 7, 1806. Before
Hugh W. Ritchie, Protfi’y,
Real debt, £134, Interest from March 10, 1795.”
R. B. Bayard, for plaintiff.
J. A Bayard, for defendant.

Opinion:
The narr. could not be found, and the plaintiff not being able to re-, sist the plea of nul tiel record, or to go on with his present sci. fa. moved the court for leave to file a narr. nunc pro tunc, and to continue the cause for that purpose, which was granted without hesitation.