Joseph Melnick Building & Loan Ass'n v. Melnick
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
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.
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