Legal Opinion
Beaver County Building & Loan Ass'n v. Winowich
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided April 8, 1936No. Appeal, 117PublishedCited by 118 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Stern,
The question presented in this case is the constitutionality of the Act of January 17, 1934 (Spec. Sess.), P. L. 243, commonly known as the Mortgage Deficiency Judgment Act, as applied to mortgages contracted before its enactment.
In every serious financial crisis in the history of our country there has been a legislative recognition of the need of relief for debtors. In the periods of industrial depression which have intermittently retarded our economic progress statutes were passed by various states to facilitate the liquidation of burdensome obligations,…
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