Ex Parte Leighton

Decided June 15, 1817

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1817-06-15

The said Leighton was brought from the prison of the county, upon a writ of habeas corpus, on which the keeper of the prison had returned that he was committed on an execution issued upon a judgment against him in a civil action, a copy of which accompanied his return.

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Decided 1817-06-15

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Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1891

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The Court,

¶1after looking into the statute, and the case of Thachen & Al. vs. Dinsmore, (1) held the return sufficient, and Leighton was remanded to prison.

¶25 Mass. Rep. 299.