Case Name: Cook v. Beall
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1821-10
Citations: 2 Cranch 264
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cook v. Beall.
Judges: 
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: 264–264

Head Matter:
Cook v. Beall.
The Court will, on affidavit, reinstate a cause non-prossed on a rule for security for costs laid on the plaintiff who had no attorney in court, his attorney having died, and no rule served on the plaintiff to employ new counsel.
The plaintiff’s attorney died. The defendant laid a rule on the plaintiff to give security for costs, and non-prossed him upon that rule, without having served a rule on the plaintiff" to employ new counsel.

Opinion:
The CouRT,
upon affidavit, reinstated the cause.