Case Name: Smith vs. Greenleaf
Court: General Court of Maryland
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1798-05
Citations: 4 H. & McH. 162
Docket Number: 
Parties: Smith vs. Greenleaf.
Judges: 
Reporter: Maryland reports, being a series of the most important law cases argued and determined in the Provincial Court and Court of Appeals of the then province of Maryland, from the year 1700 [i.e. 1658] down to the [end of 1799]
Volume: 4
Pages: 162–162

Head Matter:
GENERAL COURT,
MAY TERM, 1798,
Smith vs. Greenleaf.
This was an attachment on warrant under the act of 1795, c. 56.
it appeared that the warrant to the clerk of the general court to issue the attachment was by a justice of the peace.
Mason and Crunch, for the plaintiff'.
Martin, (Attorney-General,) and Key, for the defendant.

Opinion:
The Court said, that a justice of the peace had no authority,' under the act of assembly, to issue his warrant to the clerk of the general court — He could only issue a warrant to the clerk of the county court.
Attachment quashed.