Adelman Et Ux. v. Rosenbaum

Opinion by

Baldrige, J.,

This appeal is from a judgment in the sum of $500 recovered by plaintiffs, husband and wife, in an action against Oscar Rosenbaum, a Philadelphia attorney, for an alleged malicious abuse of legal process in ordering a deputy sheriff to levy upon the household goods of plaintiffs when he knew or should have known that they were not the execution defendants named in the writ.

The defendant represented a client who held a judgment against Samuel and Ida Adelman. On July 10, 1933, he directed the issuance of a writ of fi. fa., which was followed by a levy made on goods in a…