Importers & Traders National Bank v. Lyons
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 351, Jan. T., 1899, by defendant, from judgment of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., March T., 1899, No. 760, on answer to interrogatories in case of Importers and Traders National Bank of New York v. J. Harry Lyons, defendant, and Samuel Simpson, individually, and trading as Samuel Simpson & Co., garnishee and appellant. Attachment execution. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Error assigned was in entering judgment against the garnishee.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Brown,
This is an appeal by a garnishee, who complains that, if the judgment entered -against him in the court below be allowed to stand, he may be compelled to -pay the amount of the same to another, after having paid it to'the attaching creditor. The judgment entered against him was upon his answers .to interrogatories filed by the appellee. The latter had obtained judgment against J. Harry Lyons, and an attachment execution was issued upon it, in which the appellant was named as garnishee. Fifty-oné interrogatories were filed and among the answers to them is the…
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