Court Opinion

ID: 8481734
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-07 16:37:37.917557+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:49:35.329699
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The other judges concurred in the opinion of CHRISTIAN, J.
The judgments were as follows:
This day came the parties, by their counsel, and the court having maturely considered the transcript of the record of the judgment aforesaid, and the arguments of counsel, is of opinion, for reasohs stated in writing and filed with the record, that the said judgment is erroneous. Therefore, it is considered by the court that the same be reversed and annulled, and that the plaintiff recover against the defendants the costs by the said plaintiff expended in the prosecution of the writ of supersedeas aforesaid here. And this court proceeding *to enter such judgment as the said Circuit court' ought to have entered, it is further considered, that upon the statement of the facts agreed in the case the law is for the plaintiff, and that the said plaintiff recover against the defendants, one thousand and two dollars and fifteen cents, with interest thereon from the 1st day of June 1861, till payment, the principal, charges of protest, and interest in the declaration mentioned, and the costs by the said plaintiff expended in the prosecution of the said suit in the said Circuit court.
And the defendants, John S. Knox, Jr., and Robert R. Knox, having filed their petition to this court, representing that since the rendition of the judgment aforesaid, they have been adjudicated bankrupts, under the act of congress passed on the 2d day of March 1867, and have received their certificates of discharge, which or copies of which were presented with said petition; and praying that this court, in its judgment reversing the said judgment of the said Circuit court, would make such provision as would protect them from any execution that might be issued upon the same; upon consideration thereof, it is ordered that no execution be issued upon the said judgment without a previous order to that effect, made by the said Circuit court, after reasonable notice to the said defendants to appear and show cause, if any they can, against it; which is ordered to be certified to the said Circuit court.
And on the motion of the defendants, John S. Knox, Jr., and Robert R. Knox, it is ordered that they have leave to withdraw the original certificates of discharge filed with the said petition, on leaving copies thereof.
This day came, &c., and the court having, &c., is of opinion, for reasons stated in writing and filed with the record, that the said judgment is erroneous. Therefore, it is considered, &c., and this court proceeding, &c., it is further considered by the court, that upon the Statement of facts agreed in the case, the law is for the plaintiff, and that the said plaintiffs recover against the defendants, nineteen hundred and forty-eight dollars and seventy-one cents, with interest thereon from the 1st day of April 1865, till payment, and the costs by the said plaintiff expended in the prosecution of the said suit in the said Circuit court. Which is ordered to be certified to the said Circuit court.
Judgment reversed.