4 Yeates 123
Decided December 15, 1804
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1804-12-15
Mr. Ingersoll moved that the. defendant should be discharged from custody. He had attended this court as a suitor, in an ejectment brought by him against Christiana Somerville, and on the trial had suffered a nonsuit. On the morning following, he was taken by his special bail in this cause, as he was setting off in the stage, on his return to New York.
Decided 1804-12-15
¶1There is an evident marked distinction between the arrests of ministerial officers, and the acts of the bail in taking up the principal. It has been quaintly said, that the bail have their principal always upon a string, and may pull the string whenever they please, and render him in their own discharge. 6. Mod. 231.
¶2Motion denied.