Woodward v. Carson
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the old.District Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 97. Attachment execution sur judgment issued by Byron Woodward against John Carson, defendant, and Joseph Singerly, garnishee. On the 24th of March 1873, David Armstrong, to the use of John Carson, obtained a judgment against Joseph Singerly, in the late District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, for $8942.94, said judgment having been entered on a verdict for that amount.
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Error to the old.District Court of Philadelphia county: Of July Term 1876, No. 97. Attachment execution sur judgment issued by Byron Woodward against John Carson, defendant, and Joseph Singerly, garnishee. On the 24th of March 1873, David Armstrong, to the use of John Carson, obtained a judgment against Joseph Singerly, in the late District Court of the city and county of Philadelphia, for $8942.94, said judgment having been entered on a verdict for that amount. On the date of this judgment a writ of error from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania was filed of record in said case. Byron Woodward…
1Opinion of the Court
The judgment of the Supreme Court was entered,
2Per curiam
— The record of the judgment of Woodward v. Carson, offered in evidence, was standing in full force and unreversed, and was therefore evidence of an attachable debt. This necessarily demanded its admission in evidence, and carried it to the jury. But the record showed a delivery of a writ of error. This, however, did not destroy the effect of the judgment. Non con-stat that the judgment would be reversed. Hence the evidence of the existing debt must carry the verdict on the plea of nulla bona. But as the court has power to administer equity,…
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