Legal Opinion

Appeal of Laird

Superior Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 16, 1896No. Appeal, No. 43PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Appeal, No. 43, April T., 1896, by W. M. Laird, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., setting aside sheriff’s sale of real estate of Charles K. Brown, sold on lev. fa., Sept. T., 1895, No. 56, at suit of the Twin Cities Building and Loan Association.

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Appeal, No. 43, April T., 1896, by W. M. Laird, from order of C. P. Beaver Co., setting aside sheriff’s sale of real estate of Charles K. Brown, sold on lev. fa., Sept. T., 1895, No. 56, at suit of the Twin Cities Building and Loan Association. The facts appear by the opinion of the court below, Mecklem, P. J., as follows : That upon levari facias No. 56, September term, 1895, the property of Charles K. Brown, consisting of lot No. 341 on Main avenue in the borough of Aliquippa, was exposed to sale by the sheriff on Saturday, September 21,1895, and sold to William M. Laird for the price or…

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

Prior to the act of May 9, 1889, P. L. 158, there was no appeal from an order setting aside or refusing to set aside a sheriff’s sale: Hoffa’s Appeal, 82 Pa. 297; Young’s Appeal, 2 P. & W. 380. The appellate remedy if any of the party thinking himself aggrieved was by writ of error or certiorari. But as in applications for summary relief of this kind where the court is authorized to act upon extrinsic evidence a bill of *304exceptions was not allowed to bring the facts upon the record, nothing was brought up for review but the record proper, and if palpable and gross abuse of the…

2Cases cited18 opinions

  1. Rand v. KingSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1890
  2. Holland v. WhiteSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1888
  3. Hollister ex rel. Egbert v. VanderlinSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1895
  4. Ritter v. GetzSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  5. Gates v. Pennsylvania R. R.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1893

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3Cited by9 opinions

  1. Stroup v. RaymondSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1897
  2. First National Bank v. MountSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1938
  3. Haspel v. LyonsSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1909
  4. Schekter v. KatlerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1928
  5. Westmoreland Guarantee Building & Loan Ass'n v. NesbitSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1902

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