Case Name: Commonwealth, in certiorari, versus Caleb Downing, and Others
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1809-11
Citations: 5 Tyng 72
Docket Number: 
Parties: * Commonwealth, in certiorari, versus Caleb Downing, and Others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 6
Pages: 59–60

Head Matter:
* Commonwealth, in certiorari, versus Caleb Downing, and Others.
Practice. — Where a certiorari was sued, without a rule on the opposite party to show cause, the writ was quashed, as having issued improvide.

Opinion:
The defendants having sued out this writ of certiorari, without any rule on the opposite party to show cause, the Court, for this irregularity, ordered the writ to be quashed, as having issued improvidently.