Lewis v. Linton
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 149, Oct. T., 1903, by defendant, from order of C. P. Armstrong. Co., J une T., 1897, No. 63, dismissing petition to stay a writ of execution in case of Ada Hannah Lewis et al., Executors of Samuel Lewis, Deceased, v. Elwina Linton. Petition to stay writ of execution. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the case. Error assigned was the order of the court dismissing the petition.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mesteezat,
Mrs. Linton, the defendant and appellant, and Thomas Cross, both citizens and residents of England, made a joint and several promissory note, dated June 10, 1896, and payable six months after date to Samuel Lewis, also a citizen and resident of England. Default in payment having been made, Lewis brought suit against Cross in England on the note and recovered judgment against him. Subsequently he issued a writ of foreign attachment in assumpsit on the note against Mrs. Linton in the court of common pleas of Armstrong county, this state, and after a jury trial, a…
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- Lewis v. LintonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1903
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