Coyle v. Reynolds
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, 4 William!Reynolds and James Campbell, executors of John Reynolds, deceased, brought this scire facias in the Court below, against George Coyle, heir of Henry Coyle, and David & Conner terre-tenant, on a judgment against the said Henry Coyle, entered at March Term, 1787. Several errors were . . ? assigned in the course pf the argument in this Court, but '^ey were ah abandoned except one, which was, that the did…
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In Error. ERROR to the Court of Common Pleas of Franklin county, 4 William!Reynolds and James Campbell, executors of John Reynolds, deceased, brought this scire facias in the Court below, against George Coyle, heir of Henry Coyle, and David & Conner terre-tenant, on a judgment against the said Henry Coyle, entered at March Term, 1787. Several errors were . . ? assigned in the course pf the argument in this Court, but '^ey were ah abandoned except one, which was, that the did not find any lands bound by the judgment in the hands of either of the defendants, and the judgment on the scire facias…
1Opinion of the Court
*329The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Tilghman C. J.
This was', a scire facias against the heir and terre tenant of Henry Coyle, deceased, on a judgment against the said Henry, entered at March Term, 1787. Several errors were assigned, but in the course of the argument they were all very properly relinquished but one— which was, that the jury did not find any lands bound by the judgment, in the hands of either of the defendants, and that the judgment on the scirefacias is entered in such a manner as toaffectthe defendants personally. If that were even the case, the defendants would have…
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