Case Name: Colden and wife vs. Botts
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1834-10-09
Citations: 12 Wend. 234
Docket Number: 
Parties: Colden and wife vs. Botts.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 234–234

Head Matter:
Colden and wife vs. Botts.
A party having no interest in the subject matter of proceedings had under the1 l statute authorizing summary proceedings in certain cases, is not entitled to sue out a certiorari.
October 9.

Opinion:
In a caase a certiorari was sued out to remove proceedings had under the statute, 2 R. S, 511, &c. authorizing summary proceedings to obtain the possession of land in certain cases, and a return had been made to the writ, and on motion by the defendant to quash the certiorari, it was held, by the Chief Justice, that a party having no interest in the subject matter of the proceedings was not entitled to prosecute a certiorari, and he accordingly quashed the writ.