Reed's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal ik Equity from the Common Pleas of Indiana county. This was a bill in equity exhibited by Sterrett, Robinson & Co., and other judgment-creditors of S.‘S. Jamison, against John Montgomery, late sheriff of Indiana county, James M. Richey, and James M. Beatty, to restrain the payment to the sheriff’s assignee of certain notes given to him by the other defendants, in part payment of the purchase-money of certain real estate of the said S. S. Jamison, sold under execution;…
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Appeal ik Equity from the Common Pleas of Indiana county. This was a bill in equity exhibited by Sterrett, Robinson & Co., and other judgment-creditors of S.‘S. Jamison, against John Montgomery, late sheriff of Indiana county, James M. Richey, and James M. Beatty, to restrain the payment to the sheriff’s assignee of certain notes given to him by the other defendants, in part payment of the purchase-money of certain real estate of the said S. S. Jamison, sold under execution; and to compel the payment thereof into court. This bill resulted in the payment into court of the sum of $3439.39, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Thompson, J.
The decree of the court on the bill in equity, in which the purchasers at the sheriff’s sale of the property of S. S. Jamison, and the sheriff who made the sale, were made parties, resulted in bringing into court the purchase-money made on that sale, and the court appointed an auditor to distribute it among the *209lien-creditors of the debtor according to their liens upon his property.
William Reed, a creditor of the sheriff in his private capacity, intervenes and claims something over nine hundred dollars of it, by virtue of an assignment of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Pierce v. M'KeehanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
3Cited by3 opinions
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