Neff's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL from the decree of the Common Pleas of Mifflin county, appropriating the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Isaac Neff.
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APPEAL from the decree of the Common Pleas of Mifflin county, appropriating the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Isaac Neff. The court referred this subject to an auditor, who made the appropriation of the proceeds of the sale by the sheriff, amounting to $12,010, to the judgments in the order of the dates of the liens as they appeared upon the record, and thus stated and disposed of the objections made by those creditprs whose judgments were not reached by the appropriation: On the part of judgment creditors of Isaac Neff whose judgments have not been reached by the foregoing…
1Opinion of the Court
*41The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Kennedy, J.
A number of judgments, of various dates, in favour of different persons, had been obtained against Isaac Neff and Neff and Walker, which bound their respective real estates, which were afterwards sold by the sheriff by virtue of judicial process sued out on some one or more of said judgments. The money arising from the sale was brought into court by the sheriff and not being sufficient to satisfy all the judgments, a contest arose about the appropriation of it. Among the judgments which bound the property sold, was one in favour of Patrick…
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