Case Name: Hudson versus Howell
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1788-06
Citations: 1 Dall. 310
Docket Number: 
Parties: Hudson versus Howell.
Judges: 
Reporter: Dallas
Volume: 1
Pages: 310–310

Head Matter:
Hudson versus Howell.
TRESPASS vi et armis. Capias returnable to this Term. Howell moved to quash the writ, the Defendant being a Freeholder.
Millegan objected that this was a case excepted by the act; a fine being due to the Commonwealth, upon the Judgment capiatur pro fine, in actions vi et armis.

Opinion:
But,
by Shippen, President.
—The practice has been long settled under this act. Unless it is a suit on a recognizance, or for a fine actually due to the State, we cannot take up a mere fictition, to defeat a positive privilege.
The writ quashed.