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1 U.S. 450

Quesnel v. Mussi

Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1789-04

1 counsel of record

Decided 1789-04

¶1Privilege of freeholder.

¶2A judgment before a justice is sufficient to defeat the privilege of a freeholder.

¶3The defendant being sued by a capias in this action, PEeatly obtained a rule to show cause why the writ should not be quashed, upon proof that the defendant was a freeholder.

¶4Ingersoll and Du Ponceau

¶5opposed the rule, and produced the records of two judgments which had been obtained against the defendant before a justice of the peace, &c.

¶6By the Court.

¶7This is a sufficient ground to defeat the privilege of a freeholder.

¶8Let the rule be discharged.

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