Ben Franklin Coal Co. v. Pennsylvania Water Co.
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 35, April T., 1904, by plaintiff, from order of C. P. Armstrong Co., March T., 1903, No. 80, striking off sheriff’s return in case of Ben Franklin Company, Limited, v. Pennsylvania Water Company. Motion to set aside sheriff’s return. The facts appear by the opinion of the Superior Court. The court below in an opinion by Patton, P. J., made an order striking off the return. Error assigned was the order of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Morrison, J.,
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from the order of the court of common pleas of Armstrong county striking off and setting aside the sheriff’s return of service of the summons upon the defendant. The sheriff made the following return: “ January 13, 1903, served personally the within writ on the defendant company at its office in the borough of Leechburg, Pa., by handing a true and attested copy thereof to J. S. Patterson, superintendent of said company, then in charge of said office, and the said J. S. Patterson was informed of the contents of said writ. It being…
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