Legal Opinion

Baldy v. Brady

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 29, 1850PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was the case of an attachment execution-on a judgment in favor of Walter Brady for Charles A. Snyder v. George Grant, who survived Charles Hegins, deceased.» A scire facias issued to November term 1844, No. 2Í, to revive the judgment, in which the judgment was stated to be $727.30—interest from April 8, 1882. August 16, 1845, George Grant agreed that judgment of revival be entered by the prothonotary in this ease; and…

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Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. This was the case of an attachment execution-on a judgment in favor of Walter Brady for Charles A. Snyder v. George Grant, who survived Charles Hegins, deceased.» A scire facias issued to November term 1844, No. 2Í, to revive the judgment, in which the judgment was stated to be $727.30—interest from April 8, 1882. August 16, 1845, George Grant agreed that judgment of revival be entered by the prothonotary in this ease; and same day, judgment entered for $1408.39. On this revived judgment, an attachment execution issued on April 1st, 1847,…

1Opinion of the Court

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Coulter, J.

This judgment, which is the converse of the one given when the cause was here before, is affirmed, for the reasons assigned for reversing the first judgment of the court below. That is, because the fund itself, in the hands of Baldy, the garnishee, possessed no immunity from the attachment process; and because the relation which Kenderton Smith, administrator cum testamento annexo, bore to that fund could impart no immunity to it. I will add, however, a few observations, as some other points are 'raised in this case, as to the amount…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Sheperd v. JonesSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1839

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ogle v. BarronSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1915
  2. Schempp ex rel. Oliver McClintock & Co. v. FrySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895

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