Poe v. Justices of the Peace

The cases in the Justice’s Court, the subject of this certio-rari were founded upon promissory notes in the hands of third persons before due and without notice, proven on the trial to have been given in the compromise of a scire facias for the condemnation of a lot of land. The grounds taken were these. 1. That the notes are void, because given in direct violation of an express statute of the State, w hich says that “ no case (to wit, scire facias) after being commenced “ as aforesaid by scire facias, shall be settled and comprcr- “ raised by the informer, or otherwise disposed of, to the t:…