Barrett v. First Mechanics National Bank

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

It was decided, as early as 1788, that a foreign attachment would not lie in this Commonwealth against the executors of a decedent as defendants, and that if so issued it would be quashed: Pringle v. Black’s Executors, 2 Dallas 97. This ruling was cited with approval in Bushel v. Commonwealth Ins. Co., 15 S. & R. 173, 179, and Shewell v. Keen, 2 Whart. 332.

The Act of June 13, 1836, P. L. 568, (Secs. 43 to 77 of which relate to foreign attachments), as amended by the Acts of March 30, 1905, P. L. 76, and June 21, 1911, P. L. 1097, made no change in the law in this…