Commonwealth ex rel. Kerr v. Brady
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
HABEAS CORPUS. On a habeas corpus issued in this case, it appeared, that the defendant, the sheriff of Northumberland county, held Joseph Kerr, the relator, by virtue of an attachment issued against him by the register’s court of Northumberland county, for a contempt, in disregarding and disobeying a citation issued from the register’s court, on the 28th of October, 1816, by which, the said Joseph Kerr, was cited to be and appear , , „ , , , „ , . at the register s office on…
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HABEAS CORPUS. On a habeas corpus issued in this case, it appeared, that the defendant, the sheriff of Northumberland county, held Joseph Kerr, the relator, by virtue of an attachment issued against him by the register’s court of Northumberland county, for a contempt, in disregarding and disobeying a citation issued from the register’s court, on the 28th of October, 1816, by which, the said Joseph Kerr, was cited to be and appear , , „ , , , „ , . at the register s office on the 18th November, 1816, and then and there, to exhibit to the said register, a true and just inventory, and just…
1Opinion of the Court
*310The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
It appears by the return in this case, that Joseph Kerr is in the custody of the sheriff of Northumberland county, by virtue of an attachment issued by the register’s court of the same county, for a contempt of the said court, in disobeying their citation to appear before them, and settle his account as one of the administrators of Robert Irwin, deceased. By an old act of assembly made in the year 1712, (Gallaway’s Ed. p. 64.) the register’s court have jurisdiction in cases of caveat against the proving of any will, or granting letters of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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