Case Name: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company v. Barcroft et al.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1835-11
Citations: 4 Cranch 659
Docket Number: 
Parties: Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company v. Barcroft et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 659–659

Head Matter:
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company v. Barcroft et al.
An execution upon a supersedeas judgment, confessed more than two months after the date of the original judgment, will be quashed.

Opinion:
The Court
(nem. cm.) quashed the execution in this case, because'the supersedeas judgment, upon which it was issued, was not confessed until after the expiration of two months after the original judgment. See the following cases heretofore decided by this Court, namely, Hodgson v. Mountz & Knowles, at December term, 1806, (1 Cranch, C. C. 366); Smith v. Middleton, April term, 1821, (2 Cranch, C. C. 233); Mandeville v. Love, October term, 1821, (Id. 249); McSherry v. Queen et al., April term, 1823, (Id. 406); Holmes v. Bussard, April term, 1823, (Id. 401); and Thomas v. Elliot, October term, 1823, (Id. 432.)