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2 Md. 399

Steinmetz v. Hammond

General Court of Virginia

Decided October 15, 1789

General Court of Virginia · decided 1789-10-15

IT appears that on the 22d of May, 1788, a writ of at«• htckmcnt founded upon a j udgment on two non sunts issued, directed to the Sheriff of Prince George’s County, in the usual form, and that the said attachment was laid in the hands of Robert Toung, attorney in fact; that the said Toung appeared and pleaded several pleas.

Decided 1789-10-15

¶1At this term, without being warned to appear, the defendant, William, Hammond, of Baltimore County, voluntarily came into Court by his attorney, (by and with the consent of the plaintiff,) and confessed effects of the said De Drusina, &c. in his hands, to the amount of 400/. current money, and judgment of condemnation was thereupon entered against him, &c.

¶2Afterwards, on the 29th of October, 1792, the defendant brought a writ of error, and the judgment of the General Court was reversed in the Court of Appeals at June term. 1794.

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