Case ID: add_1/html/0267-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Pennsylvania v. John Gillespie.
    Gillespie was indicted for unlawfully, forcibly, and contemptuously, tearing down, and contemptuously refusing to replace, an advertisement, set up by the commissioners of Fayette county, of the sale of lands there for arrears of county taxes.
    
      Weller & al v. Baker, 2 Wils. 414.
   President.

For taking down an advertisement of a sale of property for private use, an action would, in my opinion, lie for contingent damages. It seems to follow, therefore, that, when the sale is under a public law, for public use, an indictment should lie for the injury done to the public.

He was convicted.