Case ID: serg-rawl_2/html/0112-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cozens against Dewees.
    In Error.
    ERROR to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county.
    No writ of error lies upon a judgment of the Common Pleas, in a case removed from before a justice ' of the peace to that Court by certiorari.
    
    Cozens, the plaintiff below, brought a suit against Dewees, the defendant, before Alexander Steele, Esq., a justice of the peace, in which he claimed fifty dollars damages for a trespass committed upon his real and personal property. After having heard the parties, the justice gave judgment for the plaintiff, in the sum of 50 dollars — cents, and issued an execution accordingly. The proceedings were removed by certiorari to the Common Pleas, where several exceptions to them were taken, and. after argument the judgment of the justice was reversed. The plaintiff then removed the cause by writ of error to this Court, assigning errors in the proceedings below, which the decision of the Court renders it unnecessary to state.
    Armstrong, for the defendant in error,
    objected, that as this was a case in which the proceedings had been removed by certiorari from a justice to the Court of Common Pleas, their judgment was final and conclusive, and no writ of error would lie, by the 22,d section of the act of 20th March, 1810. Pardon’s Digest, 361, 2.
    
      Shoemaker, for the plaintiff in error.
   The Court

ordered the writ of error to be quashed, because it issued improvidently; this being a case in which a writ of error is taken away by the act of 20th March, 1810.

Writ of error quashed.