Case Name: Wallace against Cooper
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1833-10
Citations: 2 Watts 108
Docket Number: 
Parties: Wallace against Cooper.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Volume: 2
Pages: 108–109

Head Matter:
Wallace against Cooper.
An application to take off a nonsuit, suffered when the cause was called for trial, is to the discretion of the court below, and their refusal to take it off is not the subject of a writ of error.
ERROR to Venango county.
This cause was at issue and called for trial; the plaintiff did not appear, and the court ordered a nonsuit. At a subsequent term, the plaintiff obtained a rule to show cause why the nonsuit should not he taken off, on the grounds that the plaintiff’s claim was meritorious, that he did not know that the cause was for trial, and that another action would be barred by the statute of limitation. The court refused the plaintiff’s motion.
Wallace and Selden, for plaintiff in error.
Pearson and Banks, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The cause being regularly called for trial, no person appeared on the part of the plaintiff; so that the nonsuit entered may be said to have been suffered voluntarily, and it is consequently not the subject of a writ of error. The remedy was an application to the discretion of the court, on a proper ground laid ; and however we may consider the facts set out in the plaintiff's affidavit, it is not our province to relieve him.
Judgment affirmed.