Associates Financial Services Co. v. O'Dell

491 Pa. 1 (1980)

417 A.2d 604

ASSOCIATES FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.

v.

William F. O'DELL and Mary E. O'Dell, his wife, and A.G. Turley, Individually and t/d/b/a A.G. Service, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Submitted March 4, 1980.

Decided July 3, 1980.

Armand R. Cingolani, Jr., Cingolani & Cingolani, Butler, for appellants.

Reed J. Davis, Pittsburgh, for appellee.

Before EAGEN, C.J., and O'BRIEN, ROBERTS, NIX, LARSEN, FLAHERTY and KAUFFMAN, JJ.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROBERTS, Justice.

This case involves the common law doctrine of possessory liens.[1] On March 25, 1975, appellants William…