Baker v. King
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the District Court of Allegheny county, in two cases involving the same question. On the 15th of March, 1858, Henry S. King obtained judgment against Elias Baker, in the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county, for $10,500. March 18,1858, an exemplification of the record of this judgment was entered in the District Court of Allegheny county, to No. 588, April Term, 1858, and a fi. fa. issued thereon, which was afterwards stayed by plaintiffs’ attorney.
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Error to the District Court of Allegheny county, in two cases involving the same question. On the 15th of March, 1858, Henry S. King obtained judgment against Elias Baker, in the Court of Common Pleas of Blair county, for $10,500. March 18,1858, an exemplification of the record of this judgment was entered in the District Court of Allegheny county, to No. 588, April Term, 1858, and a fi. fa. issued thereon, which was afterwards stayed by plaintiffs’ attorney. On the same day, March 18th, an execution attachment was issued, and a large lot of iron, belonging to the defendant, and in the…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered at Philadelphia, January, 3 1859, by
Woodward, J.
— These two cases, argued together, are to be decided together.
When a judgment is removed from the county in which it was entered, into the courts of another county, in accordance *256with the provisions of the Act of Assembly of 16th April, 1840, it has the same force and effect, so far as concerns execution process, in the county to which it is transferred, as if it had been originally entered there. The language of the act is very express on this point.
Yet it is argued, that after the transfer of the…
2Cited by1 opinion
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