Legal Opinion

Provident Trust Co. v. Werner

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided March 29, 1946No. Appeal, 5PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

The Provident Trust Company, the legal plaintiff and appellant, assigns for error an order by the court below making absolute the defendants’ rule to quash a testatum writ of fieri facias which the legal plaintiff had caused to be issued on a judgment in its favor against the defendants in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County. The question involved is whether the appellant complied with the requirements of Sec. 76 of the Act of June 16,1836, P. L. 755 (12 P.S. § 2631) in respect of the issuance of a testatum writ.

In 1935, the defendants executed and…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Bartron v. Northampton CountySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1941
  2. Commonwealth v. LentzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  3. Henry Shenk Co. v. ErieSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  4. Front & Huntingdon Building & Loan Ass'n v. BerzinskiSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937
  5. Boyer v. Kimber, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County1840

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Hauptfuhrer's Estate v. Commissioner of Internal RevenueCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1952
  2. Public Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Scott-Taylor, Inc., Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Chester County1967
  3. Trevose Building & Loan Ass'n v. Dimmick, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Bucks County1955

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