Steel v. McKerrihan
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1895, by plaintiff from order of C. P. Greene Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 38, quashing writ of attachment execution. Buie to quash attachment-execution.
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Appeal, No. 93, Oct. T., 1895, by plaintiff from order of C. P. Greene Co., Oct. T., 1894, No. 38, quashing writ of attachment execution. Buie to quash attachment-execution. Before Mestrezat, J. T. J. Steel had a claim against McKerrihan, which on July 13, 1893, he sent to the state of West Virginia and there issued an attachment for its collection, and attached in the hands of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, as garnishee, the wages due McKerrihan, who was an employee of the said company in Allegheny county, Pennsylvania. A judgment was recovered on the said attachment and the amount…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice McCollum,
The legal plaintiff having a claim against the appellee sent the same to West Virginia for collection out of the wages of labor due to the latter from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company. He succeeded in getting possession of the wages due from the company to his debtor who under the provisions of the act of May 23, 1887, recovered a judgment against him for the amount of them. He held a note against the appellee which he transferred to his wife, who entered judgment upon it in Greene county and issued an attachment execution for *283the purpose of appropriating…
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