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Case No. 11,816.

RIDGWAY v. GHEQUIER.

[1 Cranch, C. C. 87.]1

Circuit Court, District of Columbia.

April Term, 1802.

ASSUMPSIT—GENERAL ISSUE—RECORD OF FORMER JUDGMENT.

A record of a former judgment between the same parties, upon the same cause of action, may be given in evidence on non assumpsit.

[Cited in New York, D. E. & W. R. Co. v. McHenry, 17 Fed. 418.]

Assumpsit, non assumpsit, and issue.

THE COURT permitted the defendant to give in evidence, on the general issue, the record of a former judgment between the same parties on the same cause of action. [See Case No. 11,813].

KILTY, Chief Judge, doubting.

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

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