Case Name: Frederick Barnard v. Benjamin O. Taylor
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1838-03
Citations: 5 Cranch 403
Docket Number: 
Parties: Frederick Barnard v. Benjamin O. Taylor.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 5
Pages: 403–403

Head Matter:
Frederick Barnard v. Benjamin O. Taylor.
Hot guilty -within three years, is a good plea in trover.
Trover ; plea, not guilty within three years. General demurrer.
Mr. Hoban, for the defendant,
contended that the plea should have been actio non accrevit; and cited the case of the Union Bank v. Chason, at November term, 1835, (not reported); Dys-ter v. Battye, 3 B. & A. 448 ; and Richmond v. Richmond, 3 Hal-stead, 55.
Mr. Key, control,
cited the case of the Bank of Columbia v. Ott’s Administrator, in this Court, (2 Cranch, C. C. 575.) The Maryland Act of Limitations of 1715, and Evans’s Harris’s Ent. 48.

Opinion:
The Court
(nem. con.) overruled the demurrer.