Case ID: minor_1/html/0097-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Judge Lipscomb.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harris against Richardson.
    
      December, 1822.
    1. The Clerk of the Inferior Court cannot issue a citation of writ of Error.
    
      2. Writ of Error-ofrftationf want of ciation.
    AT the last term, the plaintiff in Error obtained an order for a certiorari to bring up the citation. The certiorari was non returned with a citation issued long since the last term, The defendant now moved to quash the writ of Error.
   Opinion of the Court by

Judge Lipscomb.

The certiorari issued to bring up the Record supposed to be in the Court below, and not to make a new Record. The Clerk of the Circuit Court could not issue a citation if he failed to do so before the return of the writ ot Error,

Let the writ of Error be quashed.