Book v. Day
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 43, Oct. T., 1898, by tbe H. B. Claflin Company, from order of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1898, No. 1, discharging rule for interpleader. Rule for sheriff’s interpleader. At the hearing of the rule before Wallace, P. J., all parties interested appeared in court by their counsel and witnesses, and the court proceeded to take the testimony and hear all the evidence.
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Appeal, No. 43, Oct. T., 1898, by tbe H. B. Claflin Company, from order of C. P. Lawrence Co., March T., 1898, No. 1, discharging rule for interpleader. Rule for sheriff’s interpleader. At the hearing of the rule before Wallace, P. J., all parties interested appeared in court by their counsel and witnesses, and the court proceeded to take the testimony and hear all the evidence. After a full hearing upon the merits, the court filed an opinion in which were .set out various findings of fact and conclusions of law, and upon this opinion discharged the rule for an interpleader. The H. B. Claflin…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Mitchelu,
This is an appeal by the claimant from the discharge of a sheriff’s rule for interpleader, and is met by a motion to quash. It is conceded that under the Act of April 10, 1848, P. L. 450, *46extended throughout the state by the Act of March 10,1858, P. L. 91, a claimant was not entitled to an issue, and there was no provision for a writ of error: Bain v. Funk, 61 Pa. 185; White v. Rech, 171 Pa. 88. But it is argued by the appellant that the Act of May 26, 1897, P. L. 95, has changed the law in both respects.
First, as to a writ of error, now miscalled an appeal,…
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