Commonwealth v. Beaumont
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county. In this case, a commission in the nature of a writ de lunático inquirendo having issued against John Beaumont, an inquisition was returned on the twenty-second of May, 1833, finding that the defendant, “ John Beaumont, aged seventy-five years, by reason of old age and long-continued sickness, has become so far deprived of reason and understanding as to be wholly unfit to manage his estate, and hath been so for the…
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Writ of error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks county. In this case, a commission in the nature of a writ de lunático inquirendo having issued against John Beaumont, an inquisition was returned on the twenty-second of May, 1833, finding that the defendant, “ John Beaumont, aged seventy-five years, by reason of old age and long-continued sickness, has become so far deprived of reason and understanding as to be wholly unfit to manage his estate, and hath been so for the last eighteen months and upwards.” Exceptions were filed on behalf of the defendant to the proceedings of the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Gibson, C. J.
By the eleventh section of the act of 1722, the judges of the Supreme Court are empowered to issue writs of habeas corpus, certiorari, and of'error. By the thirteenth, they are “ to examine and correct all, and all manner of errors of the justices and magistrates of this province, in their judgments, process and proceedings in the said courts, as well in all pleas of the crown, as in all pleas, real, personal, and mixed; and thereupon to reverse or affirm the said judgments, as the law doth or shall direct.” Finally, it is declared…
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