Case Name: West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1791-08
Citations: 2 Dall. 401
Docket Number: 
Parties: West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 401–401

Head Matter:
Auguft Term, 1791.
West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
ON the firft day of the term, Bradford prefented to the court, a writ, purporting to.be a writ of error, iflued out pf the oflice of the clerk of the circuit court for Rhode JJland diftrift, • directed to th.at,court, 'and commanding a return of the judgment and proceedings rendered by them in this caufe ; And thereupon he moved for a rule, that the defendant rejoin to the errors affighed in this caufe.
Barnes, one of the defendants,
(a counféllor of .the court) objected to the validity of- the writ, that it had iflued out of the wrong office: and, after argument,-

Opinion:
The Court
were unanimouily of opinion, That writs of error to remove caufes to this .court from inferior courts, can regularly iflue only from the clerk's office of this court. '
Motion refufed.