Appeal of the Overseers of the Poor
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of May Term 1880, No. 206. Appeal of the Overseers of the Poor of White Deer township from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Gabriel Huntingdon, a pauper.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Union county: Of May Term 1880, No. 206. Appeal of the Overseers of the Poor of White Deer township from the decree of the court confirming the report of the auditor appointed to distribute the proceeds of the sale of the real estate of Gabriel Huntingdon, a pauper. The facts found by the auditor, S. D. McDonald, Esq., were substantially as follows: The fund for distribution was the proceeds of the real estate of Huntingdon, sold on the 8th of August 1879. At that time there were on the records of the Court of Common Pleas of Union county six…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This contention is for a fund produced by a sheriff’s sale of the real estate of one Gabriel Huntingdon. It arises between his lien creditors and the overseers of the poor. It presents a question of' the power of Huntingdon, after he had become a charge on the poor district, to make and to withdraw, a claim for the $300 worth of property under the Act of April 9th 1849.
After the judgments on which the money is claimed had attached as liens to the land, and after a fi. fa. had issued on one of them, but before the return day thereof, Huntingdon applied for relief. An order therefor was duly…
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- In re CrossDistrict Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1922
- Heine's Estate, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Schuylkill County1936