Case ID: watts_8/html/0194-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Per Curtam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sloan’s Case.
    The supervision of a sheriff’s sale and acknowledgment of his deed, belongs to the discretionary powers of the common pleas; and the exercise of that discretion is not a subject of review by the Supreme Court.
    CERTIORARI to the common pleas of Dauphin county.
    The real estate of George Sloan was sold by the sheriff to Perry Martin. A motion was made to set the sale aside for reasons filed, which the court overruled, and directed the deed to be acknowledged. Sloan sued out a writ of certiorari to remove the proceedings to this court for review.
    
      ¿lyres, for the purchaser,
    moved to quash this writ, and cited 1 Watts 263; 2 Penn. Rep. 380.
    
      M’Clure and Roberts, contra.
    
   Per Curtam.

This certiorari issued improvidently. We have no power to set aside a sheriff’s sale or the acknowledgment of his deed, for the same reason that we have no power to grant a new trial. The subject belongs to the discretionary powers of the court below.

Writ quashed.