Woods v. Woods

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Woods v. Woods, 126 Pa. 396 (Pa. 1889)
17 A. 662; 1889 Pa. LEXIS 886
McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Williams

Woods v. Woods

Opinion of the Court

Per Curiam :

The judgments in this case were entered upon warrants of attorney over ten years old, without an application to the court as required by the Rules, and executions were issued thereon. Subsequently, the court granted leave to the plaintiff in the judgments to file the affidavit and make the motion required by the 133d section of the Rules of Court, nunc pro tunc. This was done, and the court then discharged a rule which had been previously granted to strike off the judgments, but set aside the executions which had been issued thereon. We see no error in this. The plaintiff was entitled to enter his judgment, had he complied with the Rules of Court. That he did not do so was a slip, and it did no one any harm to allow the judgments to stand, under the nunc pro tunc order, in view of the fact that the executions were set aside. An order nunc pro tunc is always made, or should be so made, as to protect intervening rights. In this case a subsequent execution had been issued by another party and a Ifevy made upon the personal property of the defendant. His levy was good as against the prior executions, and it was proper for the court below to protect it.

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
ANNA M. WOODS v. JAMES T. WOODS
Cited By
5 cases
Status
Published
Syllabus
(а) Judgment was entered upon a bond with warrant of attorney more than ten years old, without motion for leave with affidavit filed that the warrant was duly executed, the bond unpaid and the maker living, as required by a Rule of Court, and the same day execution issued and levy made. (б) A judgment was afterwards entered against the same defendant by another creditor, execution issued and levy made, and the same day the second execution issued, the defendant filed a petition to set aside the execution issued upon the first judgment and to strike off the judgment first entered. 1. On the rule granted, it was not error to permit the first judgment to stand, the plaintiff to file his affidavit nunc pro tunc, but to set aside the execution issued thereon, in order that the right of the intervening execution creditor should be saved.