Case ID: wend_12/html/0241-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Sutherland", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ferguson vs. Jones.
    A party asking to quash a writ not yet returnable, is entitled to a rule to supersede the writ, if his notice contains a general prayer, that is, for such other order, &c.
    The plaintiff moved to quash a certiorari issued to remove this cause from,the common pleas of New-York. The writ not being returnable until January next, the defendant objected that the motion to quash was irregular; that the plaintiff should have moved to supersede the writ; and cited Tidd’s Pr. 385. In answer to which, it was said that the notice was of a motion to quash the writ, or for such other order as the court should think proper to make.
    November 20
   Mr. Justice Sutherland

ruled, that under the general prayer, the plaintiff was entitled to an order to supersede, and granted a rule accordingly.