John Curtis & Co. v. Olds
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 396, January T., 1914, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., March T., 1912, No. 5, in equity, for plaintiffs, awarding an injunction and requiring defendants to pay plaintiffs’ claim from the proceeds of certain property held by defendants’ in case of John Curtis and Harry G. Pethick, trading and doing business as Curtis & Co., and Joseph G. Schuler, trading and doing business as Schuler Bros., v. Mary T. Olds, John A. Redington and the Miners Bank of…
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Appeal, No. 396, January T., 1914, by defendants, from decree of C. P. Luzerne Co., March T., 1912, No. 5, in equity, for plaintiffs, awarding an injunction and requiring defendants to pay plaintiffs’ claim from the proceeds of certain property held by defendants’ in case of John Curtis and Harry G. Pethick, trading and doing business as Curtis & Co., and Joseph G. Schuler, trading and doing business as Schuler Bros., v. Mary T. Olds, John A. Redington and the Miners Bank of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Bill in equity by a creditor to compel payment of its claim from property in the hands of defendants.…
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Mr. Justice Potter,. In this case-the defendant, Mary T. Olds, denied the right of the plaintiffs, to file a creditor’s bill to enforce collection from property standing in her name by gift from her husband, of claims contracted for the improvement of the property, on the faith of statements made by the husband, .as to. his ownership, which were false, but *322were made without intent to defraud. She contends that as plaintiffs had the right to file mechanic’s liens, and had also the right to sue the débtor in assumpsit, they were not without a remedy at law, adequate and complete. The…
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