Livezey v. Gorgas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ffifiER TIORARI by the defendants to the Common Pleas of Philadelphia county,' to remove the record in an assize of nuisance,
1Opinion of the Court
Tilghman C. J.
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an assize of nuisance commenced in the Court of Common Pleas, and removed to this court by the defendant by certiorari. The plaintiff has moved to quash the certiorari as having issued irregularly.
The learned counsel for the plaintiff has thought fit to elect a remedy which has long been antiquated in England, and which, if ever pursued in this state, has certainly not been used more than once or twice; indeed no precedent has been shewn of its having ever been carried completely through. Lord Mansfield declared, that of 'seisin and…
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