Good v. Grant
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county: Of July Term 1873, No. 78. The proceeding in this case was an attachment execution, issued February 22d 1872, at the suit of P. T. Dickinson, to the use of William G. Grant & Son, against Peter Dickinson, with clause of scire facias to George S. Good as garnishee.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Clinton county: Of July Term 1873, No. 78. The proceeding in this case was an attachment execution, issued February 22d 1872, at the suit of P. T. Dickinson, to the use of William G. Grant & Son, against Peter Dickinson, with clause of scire facias to George S. Good as garnishee. The judgment on which the attachment was issued was entered January 30th 1869. Samuel Dickinson, on the 7th of June 1870, conveyed to Good, the garnishee, a lot of ground in the city of Lockhaven, and took judgment-notes from Good for part of the consideration; judgments on these…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Mercur
This case seems to have been tried in a very irregular manner. The defendants in error issued an attachment execution against the plaintiff in error as garnishee of Peter Dickinson. At this time Samuel Dickinson held several judgments against Good. He admitted his indebtedness upon them. The court say in their charge, “ when the money became due the court directed the garnishee to pay the money into court, and this attachment execution is now being tried for the purpose of determining whether any portion of the money paid into court is the property of said Peter Dickinson.” The contest then…
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