Case Name: Lessee of John Penn, Jun. et al. against Michael Messinger et al.
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1791-04
Citations: 1 Yeates 2
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lessee of John Penn, Jun. et al. against Michael Messinger et al.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Yeates)
Volume: 1
Pages: 1–1

Head Matter:
Lessee of John Penn, Jun. et al. against Michael Messinger et al.
Supreme court will not punish a contempt offered to the process of an ■ other court.

Opinion:
These ejectments had been removed by the plaintiffs from the Common Pleas of Northampton county, and writs of estrepement had been issued in pursuance of rules in that court, and served on the parties. Mr. Sitgreaves for the plaintiffs moved for a rule on the defendants, to shew cause why attachments should not issue against them, for a contempt in disobeying the process of the inferior court, the whole record being removed by certiorari. But the court refused to grant the rule. They said they knew of no case where one court punished a contempt offered to another court, and would not carry the system of punishing by attachments further than they were clearly warranted by practice and adjudged cases.