Case Name: Thomas Moore, use of W. Oxley, v. Henry Dunlop
Court: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1804-07
Citations: 1 Cranch 180
Docket Number: 
Parties: Thomas Moore, use of W. Oxley, v. Henry Dunlop.
Judges: Kilty, C. J., absent.
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: 180–180

Head Matter:
Thomas Moore, use of W. Oxley, v. Henry Dunlop.
A writ of error is not a supersedeas unless a copy of the writ be filed in the clerk’s office for the adverse party, according to the 23d section of the Judiciary Act of 1789.
Motion to quash the execution, it having issued before mandate, and after writ of error filed and citation issued.

Opinion:
The judgment was rendered on the 6th of January, 1804. The writ of error was filed on the 13th of January. The bond and citation were filed in Supreme Court office on the 14th of January. The execution issued on the 2d of July, 1804, and the mandate was filed on the 7th of August, 1804. See the Acts of 1789, Sept. 24, [1 Stat. at Large, 73,J §..22, and 27 Feb. 1801, § 8, [2 Stat. at Large, 106.] No copy of the writ of error was filed in the clerk's office for the adverse party, according to the 23d section of the Judiciary Act of 1789, [1 Stat. at Large, 85,] and on that ground the Court refused to quash the execution.
Kilty, C. J., absent.