Alden v. Lee

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Alden v. Lee, 1 Yeates 160 (Pa. 1792)

Alden v. Lee

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam.

The landlord might certainly have proceeded by ejectment, in the Court of Common Pleas, if he had thought proper; but he should then have pursued the proper forms pointed out by the course of the common law. Here is no ejectment entered; and it is impossible to vindicate these proceedings, being altogether unprecedented. The judgment therefore must be reversed.

Mr. Sergeant then moved, that a writ of restitution might issue, and cited 2 Bac. Abr. 231. When proceedings are reversed on error, and there has been a term sold to a stranger under a fi. fa. the party shall be restored to the money for which his term was sold.

But the court said they would not in a case similar to the present, where the plaintiff in error wished to avoid his own act, grant such writ, unless they were constrained to do it by -law; which did not at present appear to them.

At the instance, however, of Mr. Sergeant, they continued his motion for a writ of restitution, under advisement.

Reference

Full Case Name
Moses Fitch Alden, in error against Andrew Lee
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Published