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Anonymous, 1800 — 4 U.S. 186 · caselaw · US
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4 U.S. 1864 Dall. 186·Supreme Court of Pennsylvania·1800·PA
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Opinion
Anonymous.
Certiorari.
Qucere i Whether a certiorari, to remove the proceedings in a caso of forcible entry and detainer, operates as a mpersedeas.
Certiorari, to remove the proceedings in a case of forcible entry and detainer. Ingersoll urged the immediate hearing of the case, in order to avoid the inconvenience of a sentence of restitution, when great error existed on the record.
[MAJORITY — By the Court.]
By the Court.
— It has often being decided, that a certiorari does not operate as a supersedeas, in a proceeding under the landlord and tenant act. 1 Dall. Laws, 611. But it has never been so decided, in the case of a proceeding, under the statutes against forcible entry and detainer.
Stewart v. Martin, 1 Yeates 49.