Legal Opinion

Calhoun v. Commercial Credit Corp.

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Bedford County

Decided April 20, 1942No. 44Published

1Opinion of the Court

Wright, P. J.,

Can a purchaser of personal property at a sheriff’s sale upon an execution defend against a suit by the sheriff to recover the purchase price upon the ground that, as a matter of distribution, the sheriff is not liable to anyone for the *288money made at the sale? That is the primary question with which we are concerned in this case, and this exact question does not seem to have ever been decided in Pennsylvania, nor does it seem to have been adequately considered in the involved procedure which has heretofore taken place in this case, and out of which the present situation has…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Pepper v. DeakyneSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1905
  2. Dickson v. McCartneySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1910
  3. Hartman v. PembertonSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
  4. Emley v. DrumSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1860
  5. Tindle's AppealSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1873

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