Court Opinion

ID: 3894984
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:26:35.546648+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:17.184609
License: Public Domain

Detinue for two negroes. Judgment for the negroes or their assessed value, in case they could not be had, and damages for their detention, had been obtained. Upon this judgment a distringas for the negroes detained issued, and a ca. sa. for the damages. The sheriff returned, he had committed the defendant upon the ca. sa. and levied the distringas upon some negroes, and a house and lot.
Upon motion of WHITESIDE, for the plaintiffs, the Court, consisting of CAMPBELL and WHITE, JJ., ordered that a fi. fa. issue instead of an alias distringas. No opinion was given whether a fieri facias
could issue in the first instance; but after a distringas had failed of its effect, there could be no doubt that a fieri facias might issue.