District Court, District of Columbia December 15, 1802 (Thompson v. Voss)

The Court

refused to quash the execution, being of opinion that the writ of error is not a supersedeas, unless “ served by a copy thereof, being lodged for the adverse party in the clerk’s office where the record remains, within ten days, Sundays exclusive, after rendering the judgment. Judiciary Act of 1789, <§> 23. [1 Stat. at Large, 85.]