McKerrahan ex rel. Snowden v. Crawford's Executors
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 57, to October and November Term 1868. This was a scire facias sur judgment, issued April 11th 1865, by Matthew McKerrahan, for the use of Edward Snowden, Esq., against Margaret Crawford and William II. Crawford, executors, &c., of Edward Crawford, deceased, with notice to Margaret Crawford, widow, Matthew McKerrahan and Margaret his wife, William H. Crawford and others, heirs or devisees of Edward Crawford, deceased.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county: No. 57, to October and November Term 1868. This was a scire facias sur judgment, issued April 11th 1865, by Matthew McKerrahan, for the use of Edward Snowden, Esq., against Margaret Crawford and William II. Crawford, executors, &c., of Edward Crawford, deceased, with notice to Margaret Crawford, widow, Matthew McKerrahan and Margaret his wife, William H. Crawford and others, heirs or devisees of Edward Crawford, deceased. Margaret Crawford and William II. Crawford pleaded payment. Two of the heirs filed an affidavit of defence, averring that…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, January 4th 1869, by
Thompson, C. J.
This scire facias was issued for the purpose of reviving the judgment of MeKerrahan, obtained against the executors of Edward Crawford, deceased, against the widow and heirs and legal representatives-of the decedent; and the defendants, upon whom service-of -the writ was made, pleaded payment, and on this plea went to trial.
In order to sustain their plea they called the assignee of the judgment for whose use it was marked, and proved by him that he was a trustee of it for William H. Crawford, one of the-executors, and…
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