Merchants & Manufacturers National Bank v. Spratt, Johnston & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 208. This was an attachment execution, issued by the Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank,' on a judgment recovered by it against The Siemens Anderson Steel Company, wherein Spratt, Johnston & Co. were summoned as garnishees. The writ of attachment was served January 11th, 1882, to which the garnishees pleaded “ nulla bona.”
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, of Allegheny county: Of October and November Term, 1884, No. 208. This was an attachment execution, issued by the Merchants and Manufacturers National Bank,' on a judgment recovered by it against The Siemens Anderson Steel Company, wherein Spratt, Johnston & Co. were summoned as garnishees. The writ of attachment was served January 11th, 1882, to which the garnishees pleaded “ nulla bona.” On the trial, before Bailey, J., the plaintiffs offered in evidence a statement of account, between the garnishees and the defendant, admitted by the garnishees to…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clark
The defendants in error, Spratt, Johnston & Co., were summoned in an attachment execution, as garnishees of the Siemens Anderson Steel Company. At the trial, they produced a statement of their account, which was admitted to be correct, showing that at the date of the service of the writ, they were indebted to the steel company in the sum of §1,267. The indebtedness exhibited by this account was for plow steel sold and delivered, under a written contract, in the words and form following, viz:
July 13th, 1881.
Siemens Anderson Steel Co., Pittsburgh, Pa.
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