Case No. 9,633.

MINIFIE v. DUCKWORTH.

[2 Cranch, C. C. 39.]¹

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

Dec. Term, 1811.

JUSTICE OF PEACE—APPEAL—CASE TRIED DE NOVO.

Upon an appeal from the judgment of a justice of the peace, the cause is to be tried de novo.

THE COURT said that the appeal suspended the judgment below, and the cause must be tried de novo, as if no judgment had been rendered.

¹ [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]

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