Silverwood v. Bellas
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
ERROR to the common pleas of Norlhtimberland county. Hugh Bellas against David Richardson, with notice to William Silverwood. Foreign attachment.
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ERROR to the common pleas of Norlhtimberland county. Hugh Bellas against David Richardson, with notice to William Silverwood. Foreign attachment. Upon interrogatories filed by the plaintiff, the defendant, among other things, answered: “ That on the 23d day of April 1834, he received the sum of 145 dollars 20 cents, being the amount of a judgment in favour of David Richardson against John Pensyl, in the court of common pleas of the county of Northumberland, which had been collected by virtue of legal process by Charles G. Donnel, attorney for the said David Richardson; which money was…
1Opinion of the Court
*421The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Sergeant, J.
By the provisions of the act of 1705, goods or effects which come to the hands of the garnishee after the attachment is served, are liable upon that attachment. It enacts that if the garnishee plead he had no goods or effects in his hands at the time of the attachment, or at any Lime after, and the plaintiff prove the contrary, the jury shall find for the plaintiff. By the act of 1789, the garnishee may be compelled to answer interrogatories touching the goods and moneys, &c., of the defendant in his possession, or due and owing at the time…
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