Claster Bros. v. Katz
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 135, Oct. T., 1897, by. plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Nov. T., 1896, Nos. 35 and 36, on verdict for defendant. Sheriff’s interpleader. Before Brubaker, J. The value of the goods in controversy appears to have been somewhere between $82.00 and $152.27. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Yerdiet for defendant. Plaintiffs appealed.
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Appeal, No. 135, Oct. T., 1897, by. plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Lancaster Co., Nov. T., 1896, Nos. 35 and 36, on verdict for defendant. Sheriff’s interpleader. Before Brubaker, J. The value of the goods in controversy appears to have been somewhere between $82.00 and $152.27. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. Yerdiet for defendant. Plaintiffs appealed. Errors assigned were, (1) In charging the jury as follows: “ The law in this state has been well settled since the opinion of Judge Mitchell, which has been quoted here, who had given an opinion in a case in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Rice, P. J.,
This was a sheriff’s interpleader to try the title to certain goods levied upon as the property of J. Blankfield. The plaintiffs were in the wholesale clothing and notion business in the city of Harrisburg, and Blankfield was in the same business as a retailer in Ephrata in the county of Lancaster.
On or about September 13, 1896, Blankfield ordered goods of the plaintiffs to the amount of about $300. Later in the same day he ordered goods of E. Katz, also doing business in Harrisburg, to the amount of $292.73, and on September 15th, (pursuant to an agreement made on the…
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