Bell v. Roberts

Cunningham, J.,

Opinion by

This appeal is from an order of the court below dissolving an attachment issued against the Philadelphia Transportation Company for the purpose of reaching in its hands, as garnishee, a fund payable to Hugh Roberts, Esq., the defendant and a member of the Philadelphia Bar, as an attorney’s fee allowed him by order of the United States District Court for legal services connected with the reorganization of the garnishee, the former Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company.

The plaintiff, John C. Bell, Jr., as Secretary of Banking of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and…