Appeal of the Mifflin County National Bank
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
May 24th 1881. Before Merour, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey, Sterrbtt aitd Green, JJ. Siiarswood, C. J., absent. Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin Coimty: Of May Term 1881, No. 160. This was an appeal by the Mifflin. County National Bank from a decree of the said court making distribution of tlie fund in court arising from the sale of the personal property of the Screw, Mower and Reaper Company under several writs of execution.
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May 24th 1881. Before Merour, Gordon, Paxson, Trunkey, Sterrbtt aitd Green, JJ. Siiarswood, C. J., absent. Appeal from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Mifflin Coimty: Of May Term 1881, No. 160. This was an appeal by the Mifflin. County National Bank from a decree of the said court making distribution of tlie fund in court arising from the sale of the personal property of the Screw, Mower and Reaper Company under several writs of execution. Before the auditor, to whom the matter was referred for distribution, the fund was claimed, on the one band, by John M. Weldon, as assignee of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
It was found as a fact by the learned judge of the court below, and is not denied, that Weldon paid a valuable consideration for the judgment of Farrand against The Lewistowu Engine and Brass Company. It was also found that before or at the time he purchased the judgment, he inquired of several of the parties, who, as partners composing the defendant company, executed the confession of judgment in question, whether the judgment was all right, and was assured by them that it was. It is not pretended that Weldon had any actual notice of any equity existing in the appellant, or in A. R. Reese,…
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