Ziegler & Co. v. Handrick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 291. Feigned issue under the Sheriff’s Interpleader Act, in which R. T. Handrick was plaintiff, and Edward S. Ziegler & Co. and thirteen other firms were defendants, to determine the ownership of certain personal property levied on as belonging to one E. S. Handrick.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Wyoming county: Of January Term, 1883, No. 291. Feigned issue under the Sheriff’s Interpleader Act, in which R. T. Handrick was plaintiff, and Edward S. Ziegler & Co. and thirteen other firms were defendants, to determine the ownership of certain personal property levied on as belonging to one E. S. Handrick. The following are the material facts: For several years prior to September 2-, 1882, E. S. Handrick kept a store in the borough of Tunkhannock. At various times from July, 1882, until November of the same year, numerous judgments were recovered…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett
It is unnecessary to consider in detail the thirty-nine specifications of error with which this record abounds. Very few of them require even a passing notice. The general charge and answers of the learned judge to the thirty propositions' submitted by counsel contain a very elaborate and, in the main, correct exposition of the law applicable to the facts which the testimony tended to establish. The cardinal question of fact for the jury was, whether the sale of the personal property in controversy by E. S. Handrick to his brother, the plaintiff in the feigned issue, was bona fide and valid,…
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