Mollineux's case

Circuit Court of North Carolina

Mollineux's case

1 N.C. 172

CourtU.S. Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina

DecidedJuly 1, 1793

StatusPublished

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Mollineux's case, 1 N.C. 172 (circtnc 1793).

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Opinion

Jones, J.

Yet we will not suffer the Court of Requests to go on, though the Chancery may.

2. It appears by the bill that the plaintiff is a recusant convict, who by the statute, is an excommunicated person, and therefore cannot sue.

Doderidge, J.

The defendant has admitted the plaintiff to be able to sue.

[173]*173The court refused the prohibition.

Doderidge, J. The court will do justice to a recusant convict. Noy 88.

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