Source: United States District Court for the District of Columbia
Date: 1803-06-01
Jurisdiction: United States
Citation: 1 Cranch 129 · 1 D.C. 129
Opinion
All the pleas were admitted except the second, which was that the obligee was dead before the execution of the bond, and so the bond void. This plea was refused, on the ground that the obligor had received the full benefit of his injunction upon the bond, and ought not now to be permitted, ex gratia, to avoid it by such a plea. '