Beers v. West Branch Bank
This text of 7 Watts & Serg. 365 (Beers v. West Branch Bank) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Supreme Court of Pennsylvania primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
When the Legislature abolished imprisonment for debt in all but a few excepted cases, it virtually abolished special bail in all but those cases, and, consequently, every recognizance with condition to surrender the body. The courts are not authorized to substitute anything for it, and the great constitutional right of trial by jury is not to be clogged without an explicit declaration of the legislative will, constitutionally expressed. Appeals from awards of arbitrators, therefore, are to be had without any sort of bail whatever.
Order to quash reversed, appeal reinstated, and procedendo awarded.
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