James Rhodes v. Moses Ball. Mandate
United States of America, ss:
The President of the United States of America,
To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia holden in and for the County of Washington greeting:
Whereas, lately, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia before you, or some of you in a cause, between Moses Bell, Plaintiff and James Rhodes, defendant, the judgment of the said Circuit Court was in the following words, viz:
"Therefore, it is considered by the court here that the said Moses Bell, the petitioner aforesaid, recover his freedom of and against the said James Rhodes, and that he be free and discharged of and from the service of the said James Rhodes, and that he the said Moses Bell go thereof freed and discharged without day, &c."
"It is also considered by the court here that the said Moses Bell recover against the said James Rhodes the sum of twenty one dollars and seventy two cents, by the court here unto him the said Moses Bell adjudged on his assent for his costs and charges by him about the prosecution of his petition aforesaid laid out and expended, and that he have thereof his execution, &c.
as by inspection of the transcript of the record of the said Circuit Court, which was brought into the Supreme Court of the United States, by virtue of a writ of Error agreeably to the act of Congress in such case made and provided, fully and at large appears. And whereas, in the present term of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four the said cause came on to be heard before the said Supreme Court, on the said transcript of the record, and was argued by counsel; on consideration whereof, it is adjudged and ordered by this Court that the judgment of the said Circuit Court, in this cause be, and the same is hereby, affirmed with costs; and that the said Plaintiff recover against the said defendant Twenty dollars for his costs herein expended and have execution therefor. Mar: 15
You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such Execution & proceedings be had in said cause, as according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States ought to be had, the said writ of Error notwithstanding:
Witness the Honorable Roger B. Taney Chief Justice of said Supreme Court, the second Monday of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four.
Wm Thos Carroll
Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Costs of Plaintiff
Clerk, $ paid by Deft
Attorney, $20.00
$20.00
Taxed by
No 45. Mandate 1844.
Bell vs Rhodes
1844 July 23. Both bills paid by Rhodes
