Case Name: Butcher versus Coats
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1788-07
Citations: 1 Dall. 340
Docket Number: 
Parties: Butcher versus Coats.
Judges: 
Reporter: Dallas
Volume: 1
Pages: 340–340

Head Matter:
Butcher versus Coats.
TWO witnesses, who had been duly served with a Subpœna, were brought before the Court upon an attachment; but having satisfactorily proved, that they were so much indisposed, as to be utterly incapable of attending in obedience to the Subpœna, they were discharged.

Opinion:
And,
by the Court :
As we do not find these persons in contempt, the costs of the attachment must abide the event of the suit.