Rushton v. Rowe
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 94, to July Term 1869. This was a scire facias sur mortgage, issued January 19th 1866, at the suit of Lyman A. George and John C. George, trading as L. A. George & Co., to the use of Edward Rowe, trading, &e., against Josiah Meredith, James Rushton and Margaret Rushton.
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Error to the District Court of Philadelphia: No. 94, to July Term 1869. This was a scire facias sur mortgage, issued January 19th 1866, at the suit of Lyman A. George and John C. George, trading as L. A. George & Co., to the use of Edward Rowe, trading, &e., against Josiah Meredith, James Rushton and Margaret Rushton. On the 15th of July 1857, James Rushton and Margaret his wife, in consideration of one dollar and “ divers other causes and considerations,” conveyed to Josiah Meredith a tract of land in Philadelphia, in trust for the sole and separate use of the said Margaret Rushton for her…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered,
by Thompson, C. J.
— The result of the issue between Rowe and Rushton et al., settled, so far as our inquiry can go in this case, that there was in the hands of the latter, due to L. A. George & Co., the sum of $1664.05, as of the date of the verdict on the scire facias against the garnishee Rushton. That case is not before us now, and we cannot regard any argument predicated of the idea that the debt due by Rushton, secured by mortgage, had passed prior to the verdict by assignment to anybody else. The time for the consideration of any question of that…
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