General
West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
2 U.S. 4012 Dall. 401·Supreme Court of the United States·1791
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Opinion
Auguft Term, 1791.
West, Plf. in Err. versus Barnes, et al.
ON the firft day of the term, Bradford prefented to the court, a writ, purporting to.be a writ of error, iflued out pf the oflice of the clerk of the circuit court for Rhode JJland diftrift, • directed to th.at,court, 'and commanding a return of the judgment and proceedings rendered by them in this caufe ; And thereupon he moved for a rule, that the defendant rejoin to the errors affighed in this caufe.
Barnes, one of the defendants,
(a counféllor of .the court) objected to the validity of- the writ, that it had iflued out of the wrong office: and, after argument,-
[MAJORITY — The Court]
The Court
were unanimouily of opinion, That writs of error to remove caufes to this .court from inferior courts, can regularly iflue only from the clerk’s office of this court. '
Motion refufed.