Janney v. Mandeville

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia

Janney v. Mandeville

13 F. Cas. 352, 2 Cranch 31

CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia

DecidedNovember 15, 1811

DocketCase No. 7,213

StatusPublished

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Janney v. Mandeville, 13 F. Cas. 352, 2 Cranch 31 (circtddc 1811).

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A writ of inquiry had been awarded in the lifetime of the defendant’s intestate. The defendant [Jonathan Mandeville’s administrator] offered to plead plene administravit; but THE COURT refused to receive the plea, on the authority of McKnight v. Craig’s Adm’r (decided at the last term of the supreme court of the United States, in February, 1811) 6 Cranch [10 U. S.] 183, where it was ruled that after an office judgment in the lifetime of the intestate, the defendant cannot plead any plea which the intestate could not have pleaded.

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A writ of inquiry had been awarded in the lifetime of the defendant’s intestate. The defendant [Jonathan Mandeville’s administrator] offered to plead plene administravit; but THE COURT refused to receive the plea, on the authority of McKnight v. Craig’s Adm’r (decided at the last term of the supreme court of the United States, in February, 1811) 6 Cranch [10 U. S.] 183, where it was ruled that after an office judgment in the lifetime of the intestate, the defendant cannot plead any plea which the intestate could not have pleaded.

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13 F. Cas. 352, 2 Cranch 31, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/janney-v-mandeville-circtddc-1811.