Legal Opinion

Joseph Melnick Building & Loan Ass'n v. Melnick

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided January 7, 1949No. Appeals, 231, 240 and 245PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Allen M. Stearns,

These are appeals from orders of the court below making absolute a rule to open judgments and quashing appellant’s writ of attachment execution issued against a bank as garnishee." The principal question involved is whether a release by a third party creditor of undisclosed principals, executed after full disclosure,, constitutes a release of the agent of the principals. The court- below decided that it did and made the orders appealed.from.

It is unnecessary to detail all of the complicated facts in this and in collaterally related litigation. A summary…

2Cases cited29 opinions

  1. Lutherland, Inc. v. DahlenSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1947
  2. Taylor v. Stanley Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1931
  3. Schireson v. ShaferSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1946
  4. Jones v. Commonwealth Casualty Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1917
  5. Wright v. HannaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Jacobs v. HalloranSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1998
  2. Illinois Controls, Inc. v. LanghamOhio Supreme Court · 1994
  3. Traylor v. GraftonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1975
  4. Provident Credit Corp. v. YoungSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1982
  5. Brodt v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1961

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