St. Charles Building & Loan Ass'n v. Hamilton

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Schaffer,

The question to be answered in this case as a result of the appeal of Ethel M. Hamilton, one of the defendants, is whether the Deficiency Judgment Act of January 17, 1934, P. L. 243, 21 P. S., section 806, applies where a property is sold at sheriff’s sale on December 23, 1933, before the passage of the act and the sheriff acknowledges the deed on February 8, 1934, after the act was in effect. The learned president judge of the court below held that the statute did not apply.

The act provides: “That whenever any real property is sold on any execution on the…