Sweet v. Williams
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 380, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, J. T. Sweet, from order of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1892, No. 309, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report distributing a fund realized by a sheriff’s sale of personal property. Exceptions to report of James S. Webb, Esq., auditor appointed to distribute the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the personal property of Charles Williams.
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Appeal, No. 380, Jan. T., 1894, by plaintiff, J. T. Sweet, from order of C. P. Bradford Co., Dec. T., 1892, No. 309, sustaining exceptions to auditor’s report distributing a fund realized by a sheriff’s sale of personal property. Exceptions to report of James S. Webb, Esq., auditor appointed to distribute the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the personal property of Charles Williams. The facts appear by the following opinion of Peck, P. J.: “ The Towanda Foundry Co., an execution creditor of the defendant, excepts to the finding of the auditor, that the action of J. T. Sweet, the plaintiff in…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The fund for distribution was raised by a sheriff’s sale of the personal property of Charles Williams, against whom the Towanda Foundry Company, appellee, held two judgments, and *98J. T. Sweet, appellant, held one judgment. A portion of the property was levied upon September 11, 1891, on writs of fieri facias on the appellee’s judgments, and on the 3d of March, 1893, writs of venditioni exponas were issued thereon. On the 6th of February, 1893, a pluries fi. fa. was issued on the appellant’s judgment, and by virtue of it all the property was levied on and sold.…
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