Commonwealth Ins. & Trust Co. v. Brown
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 515, Jan. T., 1894, by The Camden National Bank, Garnishee, from judgment of C. P. No. 3, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1890, No. 592, on verdict for plaintiff. Attachment execution. Before Gordon, J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court gave binding instructions for plaintiff. Yerdict and judgment for plaintiff. The garnishee appealed. Error assigned among others, was (4) above instruction.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Fell,
The money in the hands of the garnishee at the time of the service of the attachment was a deposit to the credit of the wife of the defendant in the judgment. It was derived from the sale of real estate which her husband had conveyed to her. The consideration for the conveyance was her joining with him in the conveyance of a number of properties to the plaintiff to secure an indebtedness then due it. The defendant had borrowed money of the Commonwealth Companjr, the plaintiff, on a mortgage secured upon a number of pieces of real estate upon which he was erecting…
2Cited by1 opinion
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