Case ID: law-times-ns_1/html/0163-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "(Handley, P. J., and Hand, J.),", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COMMON PLEAS OF LACKAWANNA CO.
    WALSH vs. SYKES
    PRACTICE — Judgment in ejectment opened — WRIT oe RESTITUTION.
    When a judgment by confession has been entered in an ejectment, and plaintiff put in possession on an habere facias possessionem, upon the judgment being opéned and the is¿ue found for defendant, a writ of restitution will be awarded.
    Motion for writ of restitution to defendants.
    Plaintiff brought an ejectment in the Common Pleas of Luzerne county, and immediately entered judgment on a wairant of attorney. An habere facias possessionem issued', under which he was put in possession.
    Defendant applied to ba$e the judgment opened,, and to be let into a defence, which was granted.
    The case was then relerred under the act of 1869, and the referee found for the defendant. Thecounty of Lack-awanna having in the meantime been erected, the report was filed, and judgment entered in the old county. The case was then removed to the new county on the order of the court, according to the act. of April, 1879, and the present application made.
    Archbald, for the motion, relied upon
    Adams on Eject. *252,
   Eo die.

The Couet

(Handley, P. J., and Hand, J.),

award ed the writ.'

[See further on writ of restitution; Tidd’s Prac, 1033. For form of a writ, see Adams’ Eject. App p. 479, form No. 41.]