Knight v. Wiltberger

Certiorari to Samuel Garrigues, esq., one of the justices of the peace of Philadelphia county. The return stated it to be an amicable action, entered in the justice’s docket, and referred by consent. On the 20th December 1803, the referees reported, that the plaintiff should receive from the defendant, one third part of all the monies paid for wharf-age of all vessels, except river craft, coming to the front of either of their wharves, to heave down, or otherwise ; judgment inde. excepted to the record, that the suit had not been brought by due process, for any debt or demand, and that…