Case Name: Stoever against Immell
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1832-11
Citations: 1 Watts 258
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stoever against Immell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Volume: 1
Pages: 258–258

Head Matter:
Stoever against Immell.
An order of the court approving and receiving a bond from a surviving trustee of an insolvent debtor, conditioned for the discharge of his duty, is not examinable in the supreme court.
A proceeding, which is imperfect when the act of assembly under which it was begun expires, cannot be perfected: what is done afterwards is void.
APPEAL from the common pleas of Dauphin county.
In 1810, Frederick Stoever was discharged as an insovent debtor, and Michael Steckbeck, Leonard Immell and Jlnthony Kelker were appointed his assignees. In 1830, the creditors applied to the court to permit and direct a bond to be given and filed by Leonard Immell, the surviving trustee, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duty, which was objected to, and the objections overruled and the bond given, from which order the administrators of Tobias Stoever appealed, and removed the record by certiorari.
Hopkins and Elder, for appellants,
cited act of 4th April 1798. 1 W. Black. 451; 3 Burr. 1457; 6 Binn. 455; 6 Cra. 329 ; 7 Wheat. 550; 1 Cra. 282; 4 Dall. 378; 4 Yeates 392; 10 Serg. & Rawle 436; 11 Serg. & Rawle 325; 5 Serg. & Rawle 549.
Fisher and J. A. Fisher, contra, were stopped by the court.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
If the proceeding were imperfect when the act under which it was begun expired, what has been done since is simply void, and needs no reversal. It has, however, not been thought to be directly examinable here. The books show no instance of it, and we are satisfied the present attempt cannot be sustained.
Writ of certiorari quashed.