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1 Case of William Vans 1833

handle is hein.trials/aayl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CASE OF WILLIAM VANS. The Honorable Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled: William Vans, native of Massachusetts, respectfully represents to your Honorable Body-That John and Richard Codman, Copartners and Merchants at Paris, in the empire of France, became indebted there, to your Petitioner, by final judgments, which condemned them to deliver your Petitioner forty five thousand five hundred and thirteen francs rents per year, of the public debt of France, that amounted, in the year 1833, to upwards of 500,000 dollars. On obtaining these judgments, your Petitioner came to America, in the year 1809, and de- manded of the Executor and Heirs payment. They refused ; pretending the debt of your Petitioner barred by the 5tatute, because your Petitioner had not commenced a suit at law against the Executor within four years after the death of the Testator. Therefore, by advice of Counsel, learned in the law, your Petitioner requested your Honorable Body to suspend the law limiting suits; the Constitution gives you the power to do, and grant your Petitioner a trial by jury. These Petitions were referred to Committees on the Judiciary, who reported, William Vans have leave to withdraw his Petition. These Reports were repeated until 1827, when the Petition was lh

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