Purves v. Lex
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas No. 1 of Philadelphia County to review a judgment discharging a rule to show cause why certain judgments and executions in attachment proceedings should not be set aside. lieported below, 1 Pa. Co. Ct. 206. This is a contention between two sets of attachment creditors.
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Error to the Common Pleas No. 1 of Philadelphia County to review a judgment discharging a rule to show cause why certain judgments and executions in attachment proceedings should not be set aside. lieported below, 1 Pa. Co. Ct. 206. This is a contention between two sets of attachment creditors. Herman E. Bachman, William Gerlaeh, Edward Y. Maitland, and William H. Lex obtained separate judgments against John J. Thomas, and caused attachments to be issued thereon against Thomas Shipley, executor of the will of Samuel Harvey, Jr., deceased, to attach in his hands the interest of the defendant,…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
These four cases were argued together. Each presents the question of the sufficiency of the service of the writ of attachment which issues on a judgment. The property attached was not of that kind of movable property which the officer of the law could take into his possession. It was debts due from the garnishee to the defendant in the judgment. Whatever doubt may exist as to the manner of service necessary where the purpose is to reach some kind of property, it is clear that a debt may be attached in the manner these were; that is, in the manner *201provided for the service of a writ…
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