Case Name: Shoemaker versus Shirtliffe
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1785-06
Citations: 1 Dall. 133
Docket Number: 
Parties: Shoemaker versus Shirtliffe.
Judges: 
Reporter: Dallas
Volume: 1
Pages: 133–133

Head Matter:
Shoemaker versus Shirtliffe.
THE defendant had executed a bond, with warrant of attorney to confess judgment to the plaintiff. The bond was payable on the 1st. of September 1785; but there was no provision for a stay of execution, till that time, inserted in the warrant of attorney. The plaintiff issued a Fi.fa. before the 1st of September, and Dallas for the defendant, moved to set it aside.

Opinion:
The Court
were of opinion, that the warrant of attorney reciting the bond, was only an instrument subservient to it; and, consequently, that the execution could not be issued, till the time given for payment was expired.
The execution set aside.