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2 Pen. & W. 462

Jones v. Smith

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 15, 1831

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1831-06-15

<p>A justice of the peace has jurisdiction to sustain an action upon an insolvent bond.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1883

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Decided 1831-06-15

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Per Curiam.

¶1—There was no pretext for the demurrer. A bail-bond is to be sued in the court where the original action is depending, for the sake of preserving the equitable control over the proceeding that is peculiar’to the forum. But there is no such control of the proceeding in an action'on an insolvent’s bond, which is therefore within the spirit as well as the letter of the act of assembly, giving justices of the peace jurisdiction.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

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