Jones's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe Common Pleas of Gíreme county. On tbe 16tb April, 1853, tbe Farmers’ and Drovers’ Bank of Waynesburg recovered a judgment for $1500 against Abel Jones, wbicb was entered on tbe appearance docket against “A. Jones,” and transferred to and entered in the judgment docket in the same manner. On tbe 30th November, 1853, another judgment was entered in tbe same manner in favour of Cole & Howard.
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Appeal from tbe Common Pleas of Gíreme county. On tbe 16tb April, 1853, tbe Farmers’ and Drovers’ Bank of Waynesburg recovered a judgment for $1500 against Abel Jones, wbicb was entered on tbe appearance docket against “A. Jones,” and transferred to and entered in the judgment docket in the same manner. On tbe 30th November, 1853, another judgment was entered in tbe same manner in favour of Cole & Howard. And on the 16th December, 1853, Brooks, Tibbals & Fulton, and Frederick Fickey & Sons, respectively, entered judgments against the same defendant, but which were docketed against “Abel…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Woodward, J.
The Act of Assembly requires that entries in the judgment docket shall “ particularly state and set forth the names of the parties,” and in Wood v. Reynolds, 7 W. & S. 406, it was decided that a judgment entered against John Gruver was no notice to a purchaser that it was a lien against John M. Gruver, there being a John Gruver in the same county: and in Ridgway’s Appeal, 3 Harris 181, it was held that a judgment docketed against Mitchell, Green & Wilson, omitting their Christian names, Avas not entitled to preference over subsequent…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wood v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
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- Stark v. Lamberton, SheriffSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1924
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