Case Name: Offut's Executor v. Hall's Administrator
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1822-11
Citations: 2 Cranch 363
Docket Number: 
Parties: Offut’s Executor v. Hall’s Administrator.
Judges: (Thruston, 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: 2
Pages: 363–363

Head Matter:
Offut’s Executor v. Hall’s Administrator.
Where an administrator is defendant, the Court sitting in Alexandria will permit him to plead the statute of limitations at the trial term; to which plea the plaintiff cannot mate more than one replication.
At May term, 1821, the jury, in this cause not being able to agree, a juror was withdrawn ; after which, upon the defendant’s motion, the Court permitted him to plead the statute of limitations.
Mr. Taylor, for the defendant.
Mr. Mason, for the plaintiff.
At the present term, Mr. Mason, for the plaintiff, offered several replications to the plea of limitations, supposing he had a right so to do, under the equity of the statute of Virginia, of the 12th of December, 1792, § 40, by which it is enacted that “ the plaintiff in replevin, and the defendant in all other actions, may plead as many several matters, whether of law or fact, as he shall think necessary for his defence.”

Opinion:
But
the Couet
(Thruston, J., absent,)
said he must confine himself to one replication, which must not be double.