U.S. Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina, 1793

Mollineux's case

Mollineux's case
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of North Carolina · Decided July 1, 1793 · Doderidge, Jones
1 N.C. 172
Mollineux's case

Opinion of the Court

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.

*173The court refused the prohibition.

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

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