Spencer v. McCloskey
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 19, Feb. T., 1898, by-plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Clearfield Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 402, on ease stated in favor of defendant. Trespass. Before Love, P. J., of tbe 49tb judicial district, specially presiding. Tbe facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of tbe court. By the case stated it appears that tbe amount to be recovered by plaintiffs, if they were entitled to judgment, was $160.81 with interest from June 12, 1891, and costs.
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Appeal, No. 19, Feb. T., 1898, by-plaintiffs, from judgment of C. P. Clearfield Co., Sept. T., 1894, No. 402, on ease stated in favor of defendant. Trespass. Before Love, P. J., of tbe 49tb judicial district, specially presiding. Tbe facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of tbe court. By the case stated it appears that tbe amount to be recovered by plaintiffs, if they were entitled to judgment, was $160.81 with interest from June 12, 1891, and costs. Verdict and judgment for defendant. Plaintiffs appealed. Error assigned was entering judgment on tbe case stated in favor of defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Orlady, J.,
By the case stated it appears that, before a justice of the peace, the plaintiffs issued an attachment against Robert Bloom under the act of July 12, 1842, by virtue of which a constable levied upon a,nd took into his possession certain personal prop*580erty, and left it in charge of a hotel keeper during the pendency of the attachment proceedings. The attachments matured into judgments before the justice on March 5, 1891, and appeals were then taken by the defendant to the court of common pleas, in which court, and in the Supreme Court, the proceedings resulted in a final…