Coleman's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the decree of the Coui’t of Common Pleas of Tioga county: In Equity: No. 19, to January Term 1874. On the 30th of August 1870, Fletcher Coleman filed a bill in the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county, In Equity against Walton Dwight, The Williamsport and Canada Lumber Company, Anna Dwight and Anson G. P. Dodge.
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Appeal from the decree of the Coui’t of Common Pleas of Tioga county: In Equity: No. 19, to January Term 1874. On the 30th of August 1870, Fletcher Coleman filed a bill in the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county, In Equity against Walton Dwight, The Williamsport and Canada Lumber Company, Anna Dwight and Anson G. P. Dodge. The bill set out:— 1. Plaintiff was a resident of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. 2. The defendant (Dwight) was a resident of the state of New York, but interested as part owner of timber-lands in Pennsylvania. 3. 4, 5. In November 1866, Dwight represented to plaintiff…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, May 11th 1874, by
Sharswood, J.
The first and most important question to be determined upon this appeal is, whether the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming county, under the bill filed, acquired jurisdiction by the service of process on the defendant Dwight, in the *455state of New York. That depends upon the construction which ought to be given to the Act of Assembly, approved April 6th 1859, Pamph. L. 387, entitled, “An Act to authorize execution of process in certain cases in equity, concerning property within the jurisdiction of the court, and on defendants…
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