Firmstone v. Mack
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Common Pleas of Northampton county. This was an attachment execution by William H. Mack against, Patrick Sheahan and wife, in which William Firmstone and E. Rockwell, agents for Charles Jackson, Jr., were summoned as garnishees, and came into the Common Pleas on the appeal by the garnishee from the judgment of D. M. Chamberlin, a justice of the peace of Northampton county.
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Error to the Common Pleas of Northampton county. This was an attachment execution by William H. Mack against, Patrick Sheahan and wife, in which William Firmstone and E. Rockwell, agents for Charles Jackson, Jr., were summoned as garnishees, and came into the Common Pleas on the appeal by the garnishee from the judgment of D. M. Chamberlin, a justice of the peace of Northampton county. After the appeal was entered,- the following case was stated for the opinion of the court below:— The judgment given by Justice Chamberlin against Sheahan and wife, was in a suit upon a note which contained the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered, by
Woodward, C. J.
The Act of Assembly of 15th April 1845, Purd. 603, was supplemental to the act relating to executions of 16th June 1836, Purd. 431, and extended the jurisdiction of aldermen and justices of the peace to attachment executions. This form of execution, first introduced by the Act of 1836, was confined to the Common Pleas until the Act of 1845 brought it within the jurisdiction of the inferior magistracy. The civil jurisdiction of aldermen and justices of the peace, having no-common-law root, and being planted only by statutes, can have no…
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