Legal Opinion
Graziano Const. Co., Inc. v. Lee
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 23, 1982No. 43PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRICE, Judge:
On May 23, 1974, appellant, Graziano Construction Company, Inc. [hereinafter Graziano] obtained a writ of foreign attachment directing the seizure of certain property owned by Fidelity Mortgage Investors [hereinafter FMI]. The attachment was released on June 25, 1974, when FMI filed a bond in the amount of $275,000 with the court below. On August 29, 1978, the court of common pleas granted FMI’s motion to cancel and discharge the bond, reasoning that because Pennsylvania’s foreign attachment procedure was held unconstitutional by the United States Court of Appeals for the Third…
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