Legal Opinion

Tradesmen's Building & Loan Ass'n v. Maher

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 18, 1899No. Appeal, No. 210PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal, No. 210, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 371, setting aside a pluries fi. fa. issued by plaintiff against defendants. Rule to set aside pluries fi. fa. Before the court in banc.

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Appeal, No. 210, Oct. T., 1897, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1895, No. 371, setting aside a pluries fi. fa. issued by plaintiff against defendants. Rule to set aside pluries fi. fa. Before the court in banc. It appears from the record that judgment had been entered by plaintiff on a bond and warrant for $2,700, which by reassessment had been reduced to §673.63. On April 7, 1897, a pluries fi. fa. was issued upon which the sheriff levied upon the right, title and interest of defendant in a policy of fire insurance. Defendant took a rule on plaintiff to show…

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

W. D. Portee, J.,

In this case there was a judgment, in all respects regular, which the defendants had unsuccessfully attacked, the court having discharged one rule to open the judgment and another to set it aside. The plaintiff being entitled to execution issued *342a pluries fi. fa. on April 7, 1897, and, by direction of the plaintiff, the sheriff levied upon “the right, title and interest of Mary Ann Maher in and to a policy of fire insurance issued in her name by the Fire Insurance Company, of the county of Philadelphia, being No. 3909, for $5,000.00.” On motion of defendants the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Rickert v. MadeiraSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1829
  2. Patterson v. PattersonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1856
  3. Rhoads v. MegonigalSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1845

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. International Coal Mining Co. v. Pennsylvania R.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1907

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