Case Name: M'Culloch's Case
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1791-07
Citations: 1 Yeates 40
Docket Number: 
Parties: M’Culloch’s Case.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 1
Pages: 40–40

Head Matter:
M’Culloch’s Case.
Court will not make a rule respecting a sheriff's sale of lands when the deed has been acknowledged at a precedent term, without opposition.

Opinion:
Mr. Sergeant moved for a rule on the purchaser to shew cause why the sale of a house and lot in Philadelphia, late of captain M' Culloch, should not be set aside, by reason of the improper conduct of the sheriff at the sale: — But it appearing to the court that the sheriff had acknowledged at a precedent term the deed in open court, and no opposition had been made thereto, the court declared that they could not grant the rule, and observed that it would greatly affect sheriffs' sales if such practice was gone into. If the sheriff has misbehaved himself in his office, the remedy of the party injured, after the deed has received the sanction of the court, is confined to the sheriff alone.