Respublica v. Clarkson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Respublica v. Clarkson, 1 Yeates 46 (Pa. 1791)
Respublica v. Clarkson
Opinion of the Court
See 1 Atk. 82, where Lord Hardwicke observes, “Certifi- “ cates are matters of judgment, and I do not know that a “mandamus would lie to compel an allowance; for it is dis-‘1 cretionary in the commissioners first, and afterwards in the “Lord Chancellor; and yet it ought not to be arbitrary either ¿¿a-1 “in the ^commissioners or the Chancellor to say, we J “will, or we will not, allow a certificate; but they
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- Respublica against Matthew Clarkson, George Hughes, Richard Bache, Peter Baynton and David Lenox, commissioners of James Newport, a bankrupt
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