1 U.S. 357
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided July 1, 1788
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1788-07
Relies on Respublica v. Le Caze
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Decided 1788-07
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently October 2023
5 state decisions
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¶1Costs of an attachment.
¶2Two witnesses, who had been duly served with a subpoena, were brought before the court upon an attachment; but having satisfactorally proved, that they were so much indisposed, as to be utterly incapable of attending in obedience to the subpoena, they were discharged. And—
¶4As we do not find these persons in contempt, the costs of the attachment must abide the event of the suit, (b)