Legal Opinion

Citizens National Bank & Trust Co. v. First National Bank

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Carbon County

Decided July 3, 1933No. 25Published

1Opinion of the Court

Reno, P. J.,

thirty-first judicial district, specially presiding,

This proceeding for a declaratory judgment has for its object an adjudication of a controversy among judgment creditors concerning the order and priority of their liens, so that they may properly bid at the sheriff’s sale. The property will not, in the unsettled state of the market, bring enough to pay all the liens in full. This, we think, presents a case which should be adjudicated by a declaratory judgment.

The following facts appearing in the pleadings become the basis of our decision. On the prothonotary’s index there appear…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Crouse v. MurphySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1891
  2. Wood v. ReynoldsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1844
  3. Bear v. PattersonSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1842
  4. Crutcher v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1841
  5. Parke v. NeeleySupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1879

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