MAYHEW v. THATCHER


19 U.S. 129 (1821)

6 Wheat. 129

MAYHEW v. THATCHER et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 12, 1821.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

This cause was argued by Mr. C.J. Ingersoll, for the plaintiff in error, and by Mr. Hopkinson and Mr. Mills for the defendants in error.a


Mr. Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court, that as by the local laws and practice of Louisiana, questions of fact in civil cases were tried by the Court, unless either of the parties demanded a jury, the interest upon the original judgment in Massachusetts might be computed, and make a part of the judgment in Louisiana, without a writ of inquiry and the intervention of a jury. And that although the original suit was commenced by an attachment, yet that...

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