Baker's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia: County. The following is the history of the case as given on behalf of the appellees: Ellwood P. Wright and William C. Hutchinson issued attachment executions on judgments aggregating $2,164.71 attaching in the hands of Charles C. Baker, George W. Baker, and Caroline C. Haman, executors of the last will and testament of George Baker, deceased, the legacies, moneys, etc., belonging to George W. Baker and Abram Baker…
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Appeal from a decree of the Orphans’ Court of Philadelphia: County. The following is the history of the case as given on behalf of the appellees: Ellwood P. Wright and William C. Hutchinson issued attachment executions on judgments aggregating $2,164.71 attaching in the hands of Charles C. Baker, George W. Baker, and Caroline C. Haman, executors of the last will and testament of George Baker, deceased, the legacies, moneys, etc., belonging to George W. Baker and Abram Baker in said estate. The usual interrogatories were filed, and the executors, through the mouth of Charles C. Baker, filed…
1Per curiam
It was the duty of the garnishee to make full, direct, and true answers to the interrogatories put him. The attempt of the appellant is to now prove a state of facts clearly in conflict with the answers he had made under oath, to the interrogatories. The second, fifth, and seventh were amply sufficient to require him to disclose the purchase which he now sets up. Having failed to do so and averred the contrary, he is estopped by those answers.
Decree affirmed, and appeal dismissed at the costs of the appellant.
2Cited by1 opinion
- Miller v. BakerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1916