Case Name: Amelia Thomas v. Owen Summers
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1838-03
Citations: 5 Cranch 434
Docket Number: 
Parties: Amelia Thomas v. Owen Summers.
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: 434–435

Head Matter:
Amelia Thomas v. Owen Summers.
A justice of the peace cannot issue an execution, as on a supersedeas, upon the mere indorsement on the back of the original judgment, that it was superseded.
Appeal from the award of execution by a justice of the peace, upon a supposed supersedeas. The only evidence of a confession of judgment by way of supersedeas, according to the act of Assembly of Maryland, was an indorsement on the back of the original warrant, upon which the original judgment was entered, that it was superseded by Amelia Thomas, the appellant, and a similar entry on the justice’s docket.
Mr. Hoban, for the plaintiff; Mr. Redin, for the defendant.
Reversed, (item, con.)

Opinion:
Thruston, J.,
said, that if there had been evidence that diligent search had been made among the deceased justice's papers for the regular certificate of the confession of judgment, he should think the indorsement of the justice sufficient.