Lacock v. White
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Washington county. In an action by Rezin Lacock v. Alexander White and his son Alexander, before a justice of the peace, judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff on 29th March, 1845, for $16.35. The judgment was afterwards opened by the justice on the application of A. White, Senior, and after a rehearing of the case judgment was entered for the plaintiff, on 7th June, 1845, for $10. Execution issued, and was returned “no goods.”
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Error to the Common Pleas of Washington county. In an action by Rezin Lacock v. Alexander White and his son Alexander, before a justice of the peace, judgment was entered in favor of the plaintiff on 29th March, 1845, for $16.35. The judgment was afterwards opened by the justice on the application of A. White, Senior, and after a rehearing of the case judgment was entered for the plaintiff, on 7th June, 1845, for $10. Execution issued, and was returned “no goods.” On 21st February, 1846, a transcript of the judgment was filed in the Common Pleas. On the 21st May, 1849, on affidavit of A.…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
Black, C. J.
This was originally a judgment before a justice of the peace, from which there never was an appeal. It was given in 1846. In 1846, the plaintiff entered and filed a transcript of it on the docket of the prothonotary, as a lien on the defendants’ lands. In 1849, one of the defendants applied to the Court to open the judgment and let him into a defence, which was done, and on a trial judgment was rendered in his favor. The point w7as made, whether the Common Pleas had jurisdiction, and was decided by the judge who tried the cause in the…
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