Legal Opinion

Indiana County Bank's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided November 2, 1880PublishedCited by 5 opinions

Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 161. Appeal of the Indiana County Deposit Bank from the decree of the court distributing the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of 'Aie real estate of J. B. Morris, John Cary and John Couch.

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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana county: Of October and November Term 1880, No. 161. Appeal of the Indiana County Deposit Bank from the decree of the court distributing the proceeds of the sheriff’s sale of 'Aie real estate of J. B. Morris, John Cary and John Couch. The facts were found by the auditor, John Conrad, Esq., as follows: “ The real estate of the defendants out of which the fund for distribution was realized, was sold in the following order, to wit: October 24th 1879, sold 158 acres as property of J. B. Morris, to J. U. Gillespie, for $2306. October 24th 1879, sold…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Sterrett

The separate real estate of J. B. Morris, John Carey and John Couch was sold by the sheriff in the order named and all on the same day, except a portion of Couch’s property which was sold several weeks afterwards for $2605. The proceeds of these several sales, amounting in the aggregate to $9866, were distributed by the auditor among the respective lien-creditors in their order as they stood at the time of the sales. Out of the fund realized from the sale of Morris’s real estate, he appropriated $574.07 to the payment of judgment in favor of McGregor, to use of Gillespie, against Couch and…

2Cited by5 opinions

  1. Colonial Trust Co. Tr. v. L. D. A. Corp. K. W. MooreSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1929
  2. Searight's EstateSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1894
  3. Miners National Bank v. Frackville Sewerage Co.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1945
  4. Natoli AppealSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1958
  5. Pennsylvania Trust Co. v. EarnestSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1937

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