Case ID: yeates_2/html/0260-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "M’Kean C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lessee of Edward Shippen and Joseph Shippen against John Wells.
    An attachment will not lie for not producing newspapers containing the advertisements of county commissioners for the sales of unseated lands for taxes, under a subpoena with a duces tecum.
    
    Mr. Porter for the defendant, moved for an attachment against Francis Bailey of Philadelphia, for not attending at the last assizes, for Bedford county, and bringing with him certain printed newspapers containing the advertisements of the commissioners of that county for the sale of unseated lands for taxes, pursuant to a writ of subpoena, with a duces tecum therein of the said newspapers,
    The motion was grounded on an affidavit, proving the seiwice of the subpoena on Baily, and an offer of seven and a half dollars to him, for his expenses.
   M’Kean C. J.

It is not pretended, that Baily knows anything of the merits of the dispute between the parties. And it has been settled in this court, that a subpoena with a deuces tecum will not lie for such newspapers. If the party wants the benefit of them, it behoves him to purchase them or get them in the best way lie can ; but an attachment will not lie against a party having them in his possession, for not producing them. Besides, the sum tendered for his expenses to go so great a distance from his own home, was very inadequate.

Motion denied.