Appeal of Ferrance's Administrator
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county : Of May Term, 1884, No. 10. This was an appeal from the same decree as that in Dietrich’s Appeal (the preceding case), and was taken by Win.
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Appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin county : Of May Term, 1884, No. 10. This was an appeal from the same decree as that in Dietrich’s Appeal (the preceding case), and was taken by Win. B. Gratz, administrator of Christiana Ferrence and thirteen others, who were the persons to whom the State Bank had assigned parts of the $20,000 remaining due on the Bank's judgment of $28,120.72 against George Winters, No. 145, August Term, 1877, after entering the credit of $10,264 thereon. It appeared that on October 7th, 1882, the day of the sale of Winters’s real estate, but before said sale,…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice PaxsoN
This appeal was from the same decree as that in Dietrich and Creamer’s Appeal just decided. Much that was said in that case is applicable here. The appellants took no step towards the revival of the judgment within five years from its date. After the five 3rears had expired they came into court and attempted to take advantage of the writs issued by Mary J. Dietrich and Catharine Creamer. They did not ask to amend those writs; indeed it is difficult to see what standing they would have had to amend writs to which they were not parties; but they filed a suggestion upon which an additional…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Shaeffer v. ChildSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1838
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- Natoli AppealSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1958