Lynch v. Webster

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to require the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas to issue an execution for costs against an administrator, running against his own goods, chattels, and estates, instead of the goods and chattels of the intestate in the hands of the administrator.

The petitioners recovered a judgment in the Court of Common Pleas for their costs of suit in an action in which an administrator and another were plaintiffs and they were defendants. The respondent, upon application of the petitioners for execution, declined to issue it except against the goods and chattels…