Case Name: William M'Clure v. Robert White
Court: Allegheny County Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1794-03
Citations: 1 Add. 192
Docket Number: 
Parties: William M‘Clure v. Robert White.
Judges: 
Reporter: Addison
Volume: 1
Pages: 192–192

Head Matter:
William M‘Clure v. Robert White.
Proceedings, on what is called the land-lord and tenant law, before two justices of the peace, were removed by certiorari into the county court.
Young and H. Ross, moved to quash the certiorari.
1. Because, under this law, the proceedings can be removed into the court of Common Pleas, only in case of an adverse title.
2. Because this is a summary remedy, which a certiorari would altogether defeat; and
3. Because the certiorari ought not to have issued, but on cause shewn.
1 St. L. 617.
ib. 618
1 T. Rep. 83. L. Ray 469.
Sect. 13, 1 St. L. 618.

Opinion:
President.
The section in the law, which points out a particular and the only case, of suspending the proceedings of the justices to judgment, relates only to the trial of facts and the right; and does not restrain a superior court, from examining the regularity of the proceedings, after the justices have tried the facts and the right.