Janney v. Mandeville's Administrator
This text of 2 D.C. 31 (Janney v. Mandeville's Administrator) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering U.S. Circuit Court for the District of District of Columbia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
The defendant offered to plead plene administravit; but the Court refused to receive the plea, oh the authority of McKnighi v. Craig's Administrator, decided at the last term of the Supreme Court of the United States, in February, 1811,6 Craneb, 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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