Doyle v. Commonwealth ex rel. Davis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 40. The records showed the following proceedings: — Habeas corpus, awarded by said court, upon the petition of S. V. Davis, directed to John Doyle and the sheriff of Warren county directing them to have the body of said relator before the court forthwith.
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Certiorari to the Court of Common Pleas of Warren county: Of January Term, 1884, No. 40. The records showed the following proceedings: — Habeas corpus, awarded by said court, upon the petition of S. V. Davis, directed to John Doyle and the sheriff of Warren county directing them to have the body of said relator before the court forthwith. John Doyle, deputy sheriff of Allegheny county, made return that he had arrested said Davis by virtue of a certain writ of attachment issued by the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county, a copy of which was attached to his return; and he produced…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stbkrett
This contention appears to be the offspring of a jurisdictional conflict between the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Allegheny county, and the Court of Common Pleas of Forest comity. The subject of controversy between those courts is not now directly before us, but, as explanatory of tbe present case, a brief reference to some of the facts and circumstances, common to both, may not be amiss.
The relator, S. V. Davis, was appointed receiver by the Court of Common Pleas of Forest comity in a partition pro*24ceeding, pending in that court, between George S. Lacey and wife and the executors of Sarah…
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