Bulkley v. Eckert
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. July 22. A judgment in favour of E. Bulkley, against Jacob Ulp, and Jacob jEckert was entered of record, in the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. Under an attachment in execution issued on this judgment, the sheriff attached money in the hands of a certain John Paul, and summoned him, as garnishee.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Northumberland county. July 22. A judgment in favour of E. Bulkley, against Jacob Ulp, and Jacob jEckert was entered of record, in the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland county. Under an attachment in execution issued on this judgment, the sheriff attached money in the hands of a certain John Paul, and summoned him, as garnishee. In answer to interrogatories exhibited by the plaintiff, the said John Paul said, that at the time of the service of the attachment in execution upon him, he was one of the school directors of Point township, Northumberland county,…
1Opinion of the CourtSergeant, J.
The person in whose hands this claim was attached, held the moneys in his official capacity as treasurer of the board of school directors, in common with other money, to be applied towards the payment of teachers, according to the rules and regulations of the acts of Assembly for the maintenance of public schools, and not as a private debt due from him to the defendants. His situation does not appear to us to be distinguished from that of a sheriff or prothonotary,. who has money in his hands as a public officer; and it has been determined that these are not liable to the process of…
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