Legal Opinion

Smyers v. Beam

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided October 30, 1893No. Appeal, No. 103PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal, No. 103, Oct. T., 1893, by Edward Seifert, from order of C. P. Jefferson Co., May T., 1893, No. 2, distributing fund raised by sheriff’s sale of real estate under execution, B. J. Smyers v. J. B. Beam and Polly Beam. Distribution of proceeds of sheriff’s sale of real estate.

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Appeal, No. 103, Oct. T., 1893, by Edward Seifert, from order of C. P. Jefferson Co., May T., 1893, No. 2, distributing fund raised by sheriff’s sale of real estate under execution, B. J. Smyers v. J. B. Beam and Polly Beam. Distribution of proceeds of sheriff’s sale of real estate. The auditor, John W. Walker, Esq., found that “there was erected in the spring of 1888, by one McQuqwn and J. B. Beam, then joint owners of the lot against which the mechanics’ liens were filed, and from which the funds in dispute were realized by sheriff’s sale, a two storied frame building 2*2x 60 feet, the…

1Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam,

This appeal by Edward Seifert is from the decree distributing the fund raised by the sale of J. B. Beam and Polly Beam’s real estate on executions of D. J. Smyers and others.

An examination of the record with special reference to the assignments of error has failed to satisfy us that either of them should be sustained.

So far as the constitutionality of the act of May 18, 1887, is involved, that question has been settled by opinion just filed in Purvis et al. v. Ross, No. 36 of this term. [Reported above, page 20.]

Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed, with costs to be paid by the…

2Cited by10 opinions

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  3. Caldwell v. KeatingSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
  4. Goeringer v. SchappertSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1901
  5. Duplex Electric Co. v. Simons, Brittain & English, Inc.Superior Court of Pennsylvania · 1934

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