Willoughby v. Barrett
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 190, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of Q. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, No. 97, quashing foreign attachment in case of Prank J. Willoughby v. Emma A. Barrett and Randolph. Barrett, defendant, and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank, Garnishee. Foreign attachment. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was order quashing the writ.
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Appeal, No. 190, Oct. T., 1914, by plaintiff, from order of Q. P. No. 1, Philadelphia Co., June T., 1914, No. 97, quashing foreign attachment in case of Prank J. Willoughby v. Emma A. Barrett and Randolph. Barrett, defendant, and Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank, Garnishee. Foreign attachment. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Superior Court. Error assigned was order quashing the writ. The cases where corporation stock has been attached by foreign attachment are as follows: Christmas v. Biddle, 13 Pa. 222; United States v. Vaughan, 3 Binney 392. A corporation cannot be charged…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Trexler, J.,
Johanna Cummings at the time of her death was the owner of nine shares of the capital stock of the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank and in her will she disposed of the stock as follows:
“First.: I am possessed of at this time of five hundred dollars invested in the bonds of the United States of America, commonly called five twenty bonds; and nine shares of the capital stock in the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank of Philadelphia, of which sum I give and bequeath unto Elizabeth, wife of Burén Larsen, the sum of two hundred dollars ($200). The residue of said…
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