Case Name: Butcher v. Coats
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1788-07
Citations: 1 Dall. 340
Docket Number: 
Parties: Butcher v. Coats.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 357–357

Head Matter:
Butcher v. Coats.
Costs of an attachment.
Two witnesses, who had been duly served with a subpoena, were brought before the court upon an attachment; but having satisfactorally proved, that they were so much indisposed, as to be utterly incapable of attending in obedience to the subpoena, they were discharged. And—

Opinion:
By the Court.
As we do not find these persons in contempt, the costs of the attachment must abide the event of the suit,
See Thomas v. Cummings, 1 Yeates 60.