Hilliard v. Enders & Co.
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 60, Jan. T., 1900, by plaintiff from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 28, on verdict for garnishee in case of Rufus E. Hilliard v. Frederick Enders, trading as Enders & Company. Issue between plaintiff and garnishee on answers to interrogatories in foreign attachment. Before Arnold, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 60, Jan. T., 1900, by plaintiff from judgment of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1898, No. 28, on verdict for garnishee in case of Rufus E. Hilliard v. Frederick Enders, trading as Enders & Company. Issue between plaintiff and garnishee on answers to interrogatories in foreign attachment. Before Arnold, P. J. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. Errors assigned (1-4) rulings on evidence referred to in the opinion of the Supreme Court; (5-8) in submitting to the jury the question of the priority between the attachment and the assignment; (10) in not directing a…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Chief Justice Gbeen,
The plaintiff, being a creditor 'of the Burlington Shoe Com*590pany of Vermont, sued out a writ of foreign attachment in common pleas No. 4 of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania and summoned the defendant as garnishee of that company. On the trial the defendant admitting that he owed $1,952. 80, claimed that he bought the goods for which he owed this money from another company called the Champlain Shoe Company, and gave evidence to show that all the bills were made out in the name of that company, that all the checks he gave, for goods purchased and paid for, he…
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