Case Name: Thomas Gody v. James K. Plant
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1836-03
Citations: 4 Cranch 670
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thomas Gody v. James K. Plant.
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: 670–670

Head Matter:
Thomas Gody v. James K. Plant.
Justices of the peace have no authority to hind out an orphan child while the Or- , _ phians’ Court is in session.
Upon petition of Thomas Gody to be discharged from the service of James K. Plant, who claimed the petitioner as his apprentice, it appearing that he was bound out by two justices of the peace, as an orphan, upon a day in which the Orphans’ Court was in session.

Opinion:
The Court
discharged the apprentice, being of opinion that under the Maryland Acts of 1793, c. 45, and 1794, c. 47, the justices had no power to bind out an orphan while the Orphans' Court was in session.