Case ID: pa_35/html/0270-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Slone versus King.
    The defendant in a judgment entered on a warrant of attorney, is not entitled to a stay of execution, on entering hail therefor.
    Error to the Common Pleas of Warren county.
    
    This was a judgment in favour of Thomas Slone against John Ií. King, entered in the court below, on the 29th July 1859, on the following note and warrant of attorney: — ■
    “ $1000. One year from the first day of June next, value received, I promise to pay John H. King, or bearer, one thousand dollars and interest; and I hereby authorize the prothonotary of Warren county to enter judgment against me for the same debt, interest, and costs, with release of errors, etc.
    “ Russelburg, March 15, 1858. Thomas Slone.”
    On the 18th June 1859, the defendant entered bail for stay of execution for one year from the 1st June 1859, with Melvin Thompson as surety, who was approved by one of the judges of the court. And, on the 5th December following, on application of the plaintiff’s attorney, the court struck off the recognisance of bail; which was here assigned for errror.
    
      Johnson Brown, for the plaintiff in error.
   Per Curiam.

No law is known to us which entitled the defendant to a stay of execution in such a case as this, and none has been shown to us. The recognisance of bail was, therefore, properly stricken off.

The order striking off the recognisance is affirmed.