9 Watts 47 | Pa. | 1839
remarked that the want of a precedent was a convincing proof that the statute had been restrained in practice to the letter which embraces no more than a proceeding in which the party is “ impleadedin other words, the trial of an issue of fact. The execution of a writ of inquiry at bar, wears the garb of such a trial; but it is still no more than a proceeding by an inquest, in which, by legal intendment, the sheriff sits as judge. In Bruce v. Rawlins, 3 Wits. 61, Chief Justice Wilmot declared the writ to
Judgment affirmed.