Case Name: WALKER v. FOLSOM et al.
Court: Philadelphia District Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1837-06-01
Citations: 2 Miles 102
Docket Number: 
Parties: WALKER v. FOLSOM et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases determined in the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia
Volume: 2
Pages: 102–103

Head Matter:
WALKER v. FOLSOM et al.
June 1, 1837.
Rule on the sheriff to show cause why he should not furnish a boMpiece.
Under the act of June 13, 1836, relating to the commencement of actions, it is the duty of the prolhonotary, and not of the sheriff, to furnish a bailpiece to the bail when demanded.
THIS was capias in debt 300 dollars; bail 600 dollars, ret. 1st Monday, March 1839 : ex’t. 25th Feb. Eo. die defendant Folsom arrested, and O. M. Lawrnls became his bail, by entering into a bail bond of that date to the sheriff, in the usual form.
On the return day, the sheriff returned as to Folsom, “ C. 0. & B. B.,” and at the same time returned the bond, together with the capias ad respondendum, to the office of the prothonotary of this court, who filed the same.
The bail was not excepted to.
Upon application to the sheriff, in April, 1839, he declined giving to the bail a bailpiece, and J. M. Read obtained this rule on the sheriff to show cause why he should not furnish the bailpiece.
J. M. Read, for the rule,
cited the act of 13th June, 1836, (Purd. Dig. 41,) 1 Dunl. P. 161; 2 Strange 870; 4 W. C. C. R. 233.
Tyson, contra.

Opinion:
The Court
said it was the duty of the prothonotary to give the bailpiece. The act of June 13, 1836, makes no alteration in the previous practice.
Rule discharged.