Case Name: Sloan's Case
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1839-05
Citations: 8 Watts 194
Docket Number: 
Parties: Sloan’s Case.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Volume: 8
Pages: 194–195

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.