Keller v. Denmead & Son
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
May 4tb 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county: No. 70, to May Term 1871. This was a scire facias sur mechanic’s lien, issued March 16th 1869, by Denmead & Son, against Moses A. Keller, with notice to Levi D. Maus and others, his assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
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May 4tb 1871. Before Thompson, C. J., Agnew, Sharswood and Williams, JJ. Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Adams county: No. 70, to May Term 1871. This was a scire facias sur mechanic’s lien, issued March 16th 1869, by Denmead & Son, against Moses A. Keller, with notice to Levi D. Maus and others, his assignees, for the benefit of creditors. On the 16th of July 1868, John H. Miller, with whom Moses A. Keller was then in partnership, entered into an agreement with Moses A. Keller and Jacob Keller, by which the partnership was dissolved, and by which he sold and contracted to convey in fee…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered
2Per curiam
We see not wherein anything more is necessary to be said in this case than what has been so well said by the learned judge below in his opinion on the reserved points in the case. The lien of the mechanic was perfectly given by statute, at the time the defendant was declared a bankrupt, although not entered, and it continued so afterwards by being entered on the records of the court, which was within the prescribed period of six months from the commencement of the building and materials furnished. That there is a saving of liens in the Bankrupt Act is…
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