Beck v. Church
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Before Mercur, C. J., Gordon, Paxson, Trunicey, Sterrett, Green and Clare;, J.J. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lachawanna county: Of July Term 1885, No. 156. Tills was a rule to show cause why an alias fieri facias should not be set aside. On the 21st of October, 1874, W. K. Beck gave D. W. Church his promissory note for $500, due one day after date, containing a confession of judgment.
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Before Mercur, C. J., Gordon, Paxson, Trunicey, Sterrett, Green and Clare;, J.J. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Lachawanna county: Of July Term 1885, No. 156. Tills was a rule to show cause why an alias fieri facias should not be set aside. On the 21st of October, 1874, W. K. Beck gave D. W. Church his promissory note for $500, due one day after date, containing a confession of judgment. This note Church entered of record in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne county on the 31st of July, 1878. On the 30th of August, 1875, Beck paid Church on the judgment $100, and on the 3d day of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Mebcttb
The errors assigned arise from the refusal of the Court to set aside an execution issued in the county of Lackawanna, on a judgment transferred, from the county of Luzerne. It was recovered there in July, 1875, and transferred in December, 1884. As the judgment had not been revived in the county *203in which it was recovered, and under the statute no execution could issue on it there, did a transfer thereof to another county, nine years after its rendition, authorize an execution thereon to issue forthwith?
The construction of the Act of 1840, authorizing the transfer of judgments to another…
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