Jamison v. Tarpy
Jamison v. Tarpy
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Edward Curley, who was under arrest under a ca. sa. issued on a judgment in an action of trespass for assault and battery, having made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors, petitioned the court under the Insolvency Act of June 4, 1901, P. L. 404, and, upon his giving bond to this plaintiff in the penal sum of $500, with John T. Tarpy as surety, was discharged from the custody of the sheriff pending the hearing of the rule to show cause which was granted. He appeared on the return day of the rule, and, after hearing, the court made an order that he surrender himself to the sheriff under the writ of ca. sa. and be imprisoned in the county jail for ninety days (afterwards reduced to- sixty days), and that at the expiration of that period, or upon his payment of the judgment meantime, he should be discharged from imprisonment. Three months later this plaintiff, who was plaintiff in the judgment in trespass and was named as assignee for the benefit of his creditors in Curley’s assignment, brought suit on the bond and alleged as breaches, first, that notice of the rule to show cause why Curley should not be discharged was not published in any weekly newspaper, as required by the act of 1911 amending sec. 5 of the act of 1901, but was published in two issues, a week apart, of a daily newspaper and once in the legal periodical designated by the court; second, that Curley did not file with his application a list of his creditors, with their addresses and the amounts of their claims. The defendant filed an affidavit of defense, and the case is before us by the plaintiff's appeal from the* refusal of the court to enter judgment in his favor because of its insufficiency.
The clause- of the act of 1911, relating to publication, reads: “and publication thereof shall be made twice in a weekly newspaper in the county, and twice in a daily
The appeal is dismissed at the costs of the appellant.
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