Case Name: GORGAS v. ZEOP
Court: Philadelphia District Court
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1837-05-27
Citations: 2 Miles 101
Docket Number: 
Parties: GORGAS v. ZEOP.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases determined in the district court for the city and county of Philadelphia
Volume: 2
Pages: 101–101

Head Matter:
GORGAS v. ZEOP.
May 27, 1837.
Rule to show cause why fieri facias should not be set aside.
Special bail, or a plea of freehold for a stay of execution, cannot be entered on a judgment rendered against the defendant in a scire facias on a recognizance of bail for stay of execution.
THIS was a scire facias in a recognizance of bail for stay of execution. After judgment, the defendant pleaded his freehold for a stay of execution against him. Plaintiff issued a fieri facias and this was a rule to set it aside.
Graham, for the rule,
contended that under the act of the 18th June, 1836, relating to executions, (Stroud’s Purd. lit. Executions,) there may be bail, and a cesset execuiio in an action of this kind,
Budd, contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
The act did not intend to give a cesset in such a case. If it were otherwise, the plaintiff in certain cases would be delayed in collecting his debt, even although the plaintiff had already been put to the disadvantage of one stay of execution allowed by the act. The practice has always been as stated.
Rule discharged.