Case ID: dc_1/html/0347-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "But the Court", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Beck v. Jones.
    If a writ of inquiry be set aside at the trial-term, the plaintiff is entitled to a continuance of the cause, until the next term at tlie defendant’s costs.
    Writ of inquiry set aside, and not guilty pleaded at the present term, when the cause was first called for trial. The cause was then postponed without either party having offered ready for trial; 'when called again for trial, Mr. Jones, for the plaintiff, insisted on a continuance, ilfr. Sioann, for the defendant, contended that the plaintiff ought to pay the costs of the postponement.
   But the Court

directed the cause to be continued at the costs of the defendant ; he being in default until the present term.