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1 Yeates 160

Alden v. Lee

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 15, 1792

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1792-04-15

Writ of error to Ruzerne county. The record stated, that the parties had appeared personally in the Court of Common Pleas of that county, and desired to enter an amicable action, which was done accordingly.

Decided 1792-04-15

Per Curiam.

¶1The landlord might certainly have proceeded by ejectment, in the Court of Common Pleas, if he had thought proper; but he should then have pursued the proper forms pointed out by the course of the common law. Here is no ejectment entered; and it is impossible to vindicate these proceedings, being altogether unprecedented. The judgment therefore must be reversed.

¶2Mr. Sergeant then moved, that a writ of restitution might issue, and cited 2 Bac. Abr. 231. When proceedings are reversed on error, and there has been a term sold to a stranger under a fi. fa. the party shall be restored to the money for which his term was sold.

¶3But the court said they would not in a case similar to the present, where the plaintiff in error wished to avoid his own act, grant such writ, unless they were constrained to do it by -law; which did not at present appear to them.

¶4At the instance, however, of Mr. Sergeant, they continued his motion for a writ of restitution, under advisement.

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