Commonwealth v. Mooney

Opinion by

Rhodes, P. J.,

The question presented on this appeal is whether the pension or retirement allowance due a policeman from the City of Philadelphia Police Pension Fund Association is exempt from attachment under a support order entered by the Municipal Court of Philadelphia County in favor of the pensioner’s wife. The order of the court below sustaining the attachment will be reversed, the garnishee having appealed.

The wife’s support order, entered March 21, 1949, was in the amount of $3 a week; arrearages aggregated $366. A warrant of seizure was issued and notice given to the Pension…