Brown's Estate
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 329, Oct. T., 1892, by James Evans, a lien creditor, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1890, No. 540, confirming auditor’s report distributing assigned estate of Daniel B. Brown. Claims for wages as preferred claims.
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Appeal, No. 329, Oct. T., 1892, by James Evans, a lien creditor, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Allegheny Co., Jan. T., 1890, No. 540, confirming auditor’s report distributing assigned estate of Daniel B. Brown. Claims for wages as preferred claims. The auditor, John G. Bryant, in reporting distribution of the assigned estate, gave certain wage claims a preference out of the realty fund over appellant’s judgment, and surcharged the assignee, S. O. Lowry, the amount necessary to pay the wage claims which had been paid by him on appellant’s judgment. The wage claims had not been filed in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Gbeen,
The first section of the act of April 9, 1872, P. L. 47, gave a lien to all miners, mechanics, laborers and clerks, for their labor and services, to be paid out of the proceeds of sale of the property against which the lien was given, and prescribed the methods by which such claims should be established and collected. The third and last proviso to said section directed that no such claim should be a lien upon any real estate, unless the same was filed in the prothonotary’s office of the countjr in which such real estate was situated, within three months after the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Dorsey & Macklin, & Donnelly & Co.'s AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1872
- Beckert v. City of AlleghenySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1877
- Chunk v. McGeeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1876
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- Philadelphia ex rel. Nestor v. Spring Garden Farmers' Market Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
- Commonwealth v. LakeySuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1926
- Bailey v. Brown TownshipSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1899
- Commonwealth v. LakeyCambria County Court of Quarter Sessions · 1926
- Commonwealth v. Turri, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Washington County1929
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