Watkins v. Justice
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 104, Oct. T., 1916, by Ellwood Lumber Company, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No. 701, dismissing exceptions to sheriff’s sale in case of C. B. Watkins, for use of the German Savings & Deposit Bank v. William M. Justice. Exceptions to sheriff’s sale. Before Davis, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The. lower court dismissed the exceptions. The Ell-wood Lumber Company, a lien creditor and exceptant, appealed.
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Appeal, No. 104, Oct. T., 1916, by Ellwood Lumber Company, from decree of C. P. Allegheny Co., July T., 1915, No. 701, dismissing exceptions to sheriff’s sale in case of C. B. Watkins, for use of the German Savings & Deposit Bank v. William M. Justice. Exceptions to sheriff’s sale. Before Davis, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The. lower court dismissed the exceptions. The Ell-wood Lumber Company, a lien creditor and exceptant, appealed. Error assigned, among others, was the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Frazer,
The German Savings and Deposit Bank, the use-plaintiff, held five mortgages against defendant, one of which, a first lien, with interest and costs added, represented a debt of $62,500.41. Foreclosure proceedings were begun on another mortgage, a second lien, C. B. Watkins, mortgagee, for use of the bank, upon which judgment was obtained August 13,1913, for the sum of $22,827, on which judgment a pluries levari facias was issued June 18, 1915, and fourteen brick dwellings belonging to defendant levied upon. Conformably to this writ the sheriff advertised the…
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