Anonymous
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
· September 1, 1800
4 U.S. 186
Syllabus
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.
Full Opinion (317 characters)
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.
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