Legal Opinion

Walls v. Campbell

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 8, 1889No. Nos. 399 and 400PublishedCited by 12 opinions

EBBOB TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. Nos. 399 and 400 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below Nos. 515 and 516 June Term 1885, C. P. No. 3. On August 18, 1885, Hiram M. Campbell and Henry T. Atkinson, trading as Campbell & Atkinson, began a suit by an attachment, under tbe act of March 17, 1869, P. L. 8, against Henry D. Walls, trading as J. A. Biter & Co. On the same day Joseph O. Boteler brought a like action on a like writ against the same…

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EBBOB TO THE COURT OE COMMON PLEAS NO. 3 OE PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. Nos. 399 and 400 January Term 1888, Sup. Ct.; court below Nos. 515 and 516 June Term 1885, C. P. No. 3. On August 18, 1885, Hiram M. Campbell and Henry T. Atkinson, trading as Campbell & Atkinson, began a suit by an attachment, under tbe act of March 17, 1869, P. L. 8, against Henry D. Walls, trading as J. A. Biter & Co. On the same day Joseph O. Boteler brought a like action on a like writ against the same defendant. The affidavit upon which the attachment of Campbell & Atkinson was based was as follows: “ Henry T. Atkinson…

1Opinion of the Court

*351WALLS v. CAMPBELL.

Opinion,

Mr. Chibe Justice Paxson:

Tliis was an attachment’ under the act of 1869. A motion was made in the court below to dissolve the attachment which was refused, and the case went on to trial, with the result of a verdict against the defendant. There is but a single assignment of error, out of which the learned counsel for the plaintiffs in error have carved two questions, viz.: (a) “ Ought the court below to have instructed the verdict in view of the disputed facts, especially that the whole of plaintiffs’ claim had been paid by notes, one of which was not due at the time…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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