Knight v. Ferris

ON a writ of error to the Superior Court in and for Sussex County, heard before Saulsbury, chancellor, Comegys, chief justice, and Wootten and Wales, judges, Houston, J., absent.

Bradford for the defendant in error moved to dismiss the writ, because no writ of error will lie in the case, as it could not, in the nature of it, possibly be prosecuted with effect. The command of the writ was, by the express terms of it, to be performed on or before the 21st day of October then next ensuing, and no term of this court could be held for the hearing of it until the present term in June following the…