Case Name: Johnson v. Harris
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1801-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 35
Docket Number: 
Parties: Johnson v. Harris.
Judges: The defendant was allowed by Kilty, C. J., and Cranch, J., to appear without bail. Marshall, J., contra.
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 1
Pages: 35–36

Head Matter:
Johnson v. Harris.
Bail will not be required to be given by the defendant in an action by his immediate indorsee, while another action is depending against him by a moré remote indorsee; especially if the name of the plaintiff has been stricken from the note by the subsequent indorsee.
Motion for the defendant to appear without bail. Appearance bail had been ruled by one of the judges out of Court upon an affidavit.

Opinion:
The suit was brought upon a note given by Clingman and McGan to Towers, and indorsed by Towers to Harris, by Harris to Johnson, and by Johnson to Dunlop.
Dunlop had sued Harris, as indorser of this note, in the Court of Hustings of Alexandria. Harris appealed to the District Court at Dumfries, where the judgment was reversed, and Dun-lop appealed to the Court of Appeals, where the suit is still pending. At the trial of the cause of Dunlop v. Harris, the name of Johnson, the intermediate indorser, was struck out.
The defendant was allowed by Kilty, C. J., and Cranch, J., to appear without bail. Marshall, J., contra.