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4 Watts & Serg. 278

Sott v. Kelso

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided September 15, 1842

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1842-09-15

Henry Sott against William Kelso. This was a scire facias against the defendant as constable, to recover the amount of an execution put into his hands at the suit of the plaintiff against John Cooper for $86.12. Upon the trial before the justice a judgment was rendered for the defendant, from which the plaintiff appealed to the Common Pleas, where the cause was tried, and a verdict rendered for the plaintiff for $86.75.

Decided 1842-09-15

Per Curiam.

¶1— An appeal by the constable when Johnston v. Meeker was decided, would not have consisted with the summary provisions of the Act of 1810, which, denying him the usual stay, subjected him to instant execution. But no such impediment was in the way of an appeal by the plaintiff, which, had the case occurred, could have been disallowed, if at all, only for want of reciprocity. But an appeal has been provided by the Act of 1840, even for the constable; and the principle of reciprocity now operates the other way. The proceeding is an action, and there is no reason to refuse to either party the appeal allowed in other cases.

¶2Judgment for plaintiff.

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