Schuylkill County's Appeal
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal from the Common Pleas of Schuylkill county. This was an appeal by The County of Schuylkill from the decree of the court below, distributing the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of the personal estate of Peter Allison. The facts of the case are fully set forth in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Strong, J.
— The County of Schuylkill and John H. Hill are rival claimants of a fund in court, arising from a sheriff’s sale of certain personal property of Peter Allison, and which may be described as claimed by Isaac Bachman. Both the claimants are execution-creditors, but the execution of Hill was the first, and was placed in the sheriff’s hands on the 8th day of June 1853. On the following day, June 9th, the sheriff made a levy upon certain personal property, and endorsed his levy upon the execution as follows: — “Levied, June 9th, 1853, on 8…
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