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Case No. 11,806.
RICKETTS et al. v. HENDERSON.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 157.]1
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Nov. Term, 1818.
JUDGMENT—ACTION UPON—PERSONAL SERVICE.
A judgment against the principal debtor, in a foreign attachment in Pennsylvania, is not evidence, in the District of Columbia, of a debt due by that debtor.
Debt, on a judgment in Pennsylvania on a foreign attachment.
Mr. Taylor, for defendant, contended that as the judgment was rendered without any personal notice to the defendant it was not even prima facie evidence of a debt Robinson v. Ward's Ex'rs, 8 Johns. 89; Kilburn v. Woodworth, 5 Johns. 37; and Buchannan's Case, 9 East 192.
Mr. Swann, for plaintiff.
THE COURT, having taken time to consider, rendered judgment for the defendant, on the authority of the cases cited by the defendant's counsel.
1 [Reported by Charles Sumner, Esq.]
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