Thompson v. McCleary
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 226, Oet. T., 1893, by defendants, R. B. Ivory, trustee, and George C. VanKirk, trading as G. C. VanKirk & Co., from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 294, granting injunction against appellants and Wm. H. McCleary, sheriff, at suit of Henry C. Thompson et al., receivers of Northwestern.Hard ware Co. Bill to restrain execution on personal property.
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Appeal, No. 226, Oet. T., 1893, by defendants, R. B. Ivory, trustee, and George C. VanKirk, trading as G. C. VanKirk & Co., from decree of C. P. No. 1, Allegheny Co., Sept. T., 1893, No. 294, granting injunction against appellants and Wm. H. McCleary, sheriff, at suit of Henry C. Thompson et al., receivers of Northwestern.Hard ware Co. Bill to restrain execution on personal property. From the bill, answer and proofs it appeared that the Northwestern Hardware Co. is a corporation organized under the laws of Illinois, having an office and doing a large part of its business in Philadelphia. On…
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Mr. Justice Thompson,
The special injunction from which this appeal was taken was granted to restrain appellant McCleary, the sheriff of Allegheny county, and appellant R. B. Ivory, trustee in a certain judgment confessed by G. C. VanKirk, trading as G. C. VanKirk & Co., from interfering with the possession of certain goods by the appellees as receivers of the Northwestern Hardware Company, appointed by the court of common pleas No. 3 of Philadelphia county. The bill avers that the company carried on business in Pittsburgh through G. C. VanKirk as its agent, whose agency and his…
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