Case Name: Lenox's Administrator v. Arguelles
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1834-11
Citations: 4 Cranch 477
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lenox’s Administrator v. Arguelles.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 4
Pages: 477–477

Head Matter:
Lenox’s Administrator v. Arguelles.
A certiorari will not'lie to bring up the proceedings of justices of the peace, under the Maryland statute of 1793, e. 43, against tenants holding oyer.
Mr. Bryce
moved for a certiorari to a justice of the peace, to bring up his proceedings against a tenant holding over under the Maryland Act of 1793, c. 43.
Mr. Lamed,
by special permission, stated, that, by the practice in Maryland, a certiorari would be granted in such' a case ; the proceeding under .the statute being considered as a substitute for an action of ejectment.

Opinion:
The Court,
however, (nem. con.) was of opinion, " as at present advised," that it has no power to issue a certiorari in such a ease.