Case Name: Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1785-06
Citations: 1 Dall. 133
Docket Number: 
Parties: Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 137–137

Head Matter:
Shoemaker v. Shirtliffe.
Practice.
Execution eannot issue on a judgment entered on bond, by a warrant of attorney, until the time of payment, although there is no provision in the warrant for a stay of execution.
The defendant had executed a bond, with warrant of attorney to confess judgment -to the plaintiff. The bond was payable on the 1st of September 1785 ; but there was no provision for a stay of execution, until that time, inserted in the warrant of attorney. The plaintiff issued a ft. fa., before the 1st of September, and Dallas, for the defendant, moved to set it aside.

Opinion:
The Court
were of opinion, that the warrant of attorney reciting the bond, was only an instrument subservient to it; and, consequently, that the execution could not be issued, until the time given for payment was expired.
The execution set aside.
See Hopkins v. Deaves, 2 Bro. 97; Sparks v. Garrigues, 1 Binn, 152.