Earl's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Common Pleas of Berks county, for distribution of tbe proceeds of sale of personal property of Pawly. At the time tbe executions issued, Pawly was engaged in tbe stove business, and in tbe manufacture of tin and copper ware, door-locks, and in tbe sale of gas fixtures in Reading. Shenfelder held a judgment against Pawley, entered Feb. 27,1849, payable on tbe next day, entered for $1,500 with stay till day of payment.
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Appeal from tbe decree of tbe Common Pleas of Berks county, for distribution of tbe proceeds of sale of personal property of Pawly. At the time tbe executions issued, Pawly was engaged in tbe stove business, and in tbe manufacture of tin and copper ware, door-locks, and in tbe sale of gas fixtures in Reading. Shenfelder held a judgment against Pawley, entered Feb. 27,1849, payable on tbe next day, entered for $1,500 with stay till day of payment. Fi. fa. issued Feb. 28th, 1849, to April T. 1849, No. 41. This execution went into tbe sheriff’s bands on tbe same day. About a week after receiving…
1Opinion of the Court
*485The opinion of the court was delivered by
Coulter, J.
Directness and plainness in the conduct of business affairs contributes much to the certainty and fairness of their adjustment; whilst complication and unnecessary interweaving of one transaction with another does greatly embarrass the judicial application of statutory and just principles to each. If the leading features of the act of 1886, concerning executions, were fully carried out regardless of former and sometimes conflicting decisions in relation to the law and priority of levies on personal property, the duties of sheriffs and the…
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