Governor v. Bacon's executors

Opinion of the Court.

THE Commonwealth, having obtained a judgment in the general court against Philips Caldwell, issued an execution to enforce it, which was levied on a tract of land in Ohio county, by the sheriff. To vacate and set aside *282this execution, Caldwell obtained a writ of error coram vobis, by order of one of the judges of that court; and on the hearing, the execution and all proceedings under it, were quashed. But, on an appeal to this court, that decision was reversed and the execution revived. The security in the supersedeas bond given to obtain the writ of error coram vobis,…