Hartle v. Long
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
In error from the Common Pleas of Bedford. June 10. A judgment was obtained in foreign attachment against Hartle in 1830. In 1843, a sci. fa. issued against the garnishees, on the trial of which it was shown, they were administrators, and had in their hands a fund reserved for the widow’s share of the real and personal estate of the decedent, which, on her death, was in part payable to the defendant in the action. The death of the widow was proved.
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In error from the Common Pleas of Bedford. June 10. A judgment was obtained in foreign attachment against Hartle in 1830. In 1843, a sci. fa. issued against the garnishees, on the trial of which it was shown, they were administrators, and had in their hands a fund reserved for the widow’s share of the real and personal estate of the decedent, which, on her death, was in part payable to the defendant in the action. The death of the widow was proved. The court (BlAck, P. J.) being' of opinion that the act of 1842 had no retrospective operation, and the funds not being liable to attachment…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnside, J.
This was a scire facias on a judgment in a foreign attachment issued against the surviving administrator of Frederick Hartle, deceased, in whose hands certain money was attached for the debt of Jacob Hartle. The foreign attachment had issued in 1829, and judgment was obtained in 1880. The money attached was a distributive share of the estate of Frederick Hartle, deceased, which would be coming to Jacob Hartle on the death .of his mother. This attachment issued more than eleven' years before the passage of the act of 27th of July, 1842, entitled “An act to enable creditors to attach legacies,”…
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