Case Name: BEALE'S Executors against The COMMONWEALTH for the use of SMEDLY and another
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1824-06-21
Citations: 11 Serg. & Rawle 305
Docket Number: 
Parties: BEALE’S Executors against The COMMONWEALTH for the use of SMEDLY and another.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 11
Pages: 305–305

Head Matter:
[Sunbury,
June 21, 1824.]
BEALE’S Executors against The COMMONWEALTH for the use of SMEDLY and another.
in error.
If a deputation be by deed, the deed must be produced and proved like other deeds; and if the subscribing witness does not attend, parol evidence cannot be given of the alleged deputy having acted in that capacity.
Error to the Common Pleas of Mifflin county.

Opinion:
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Duncan, J.
This is the same in principle, as the preceding case, with the additional circumstance, that the deputation was produced, but the subscribing witness did not attend, to prove the execution of the instrument; and evidence was admitted of M'Clure's acting as deputy of the coroner in other instances; and this held to be proof of a general deputation. For the reasons assigned in the former case, I am of opinion this judgment should be reversed, and a venire facias de novo awarded.
Judgment reversed', and a venire facias de novo awarded.