Supreme Court of the United States February 18, 1858 (Chaffee v. Hayward)

Mr. Justice CATRON

delivered the opinion of the court.

The question of law decided below, and which we are called on to revise, arises on the following facts: On the twenty-second day of October, 1855, the plaintiff in error sued out a writ in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Rhode Island district, against Nathaniel Hayward, styling him as “ of Colchester, in the State of