Reed v. Penrose's
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia.* This was an attachment execution by Charles B. Penrose on a judgment in his favour against The Erie Canal Company, obtained in the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county, on the 7th October 1856, for $12,066.47, and entered in the District Court of Philadelphia on the 80th December 1856, on a transcript from the court of Erie county. The attachment was issued on the same day, and served on Charles M. Reed, as garnishee.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia.* This was an attachment execution by Charles B. Penrose on a judgment in his favour against The Erie Canal Company, obtained in the Court of Common Pleas of Erie county, on the 7th October 1856, for $12,066.47, and entered in the District Court of Philadelphia on the 80th December 1856, on a transcript from the court of Erie county. The attachment was issued on the same day, and served on Charles M. Reed, as garnishee. A fi. fa. issued from the Common Pleas of Erie county, had been returned nulla bona. On the 18th April 1857, the plaintiff’s death…
1Opinion of the CourtLowrie, C. J.
When we directed the affirmance of the judgment in this case, we were entirely clear on most of the points discussed on the argument, and they seemed to us so simple, that we did not deem it necessary to add anything to the opinion of the court below, relative to them. On two points we had some hesitation, because two of our brethren (Justices Thompson and Read), having been of counsel in the cause, did not sit at the argument; and only two of the remaining three of us were in favour of affirming them. Hence, we did not think that any reasons that we could assign for our judgment, ought to be…
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