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1 U.S. 420

Halhead v. Ross

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided January 1, 1789

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1789-01

1 counsel of record

Decided 1789-01

¶1Practice. — Rule for trial or non-pros.

¶2Moylan had entered a rule for trial at the last term or nonpros. The rule being continued until this term, a plea was added, and particular facts referred; and upon these, a report had been made, a few days before the day appointed for the trial of the cause.

¶3Lewis, for the plaintiff,

¶4now objected to the trial’s coming on ; and Moylan insisted that he was entitled to a nonpros. But by—

¶5*421*McKean, Chief Justice.

¶6The subsequent plea and reference virtually vacate the previous rule for trial or non-pros. The cause must, therefore, be continued, under a new rule.

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