Mulligan v. Barnes

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Mulligan v. Barnes, 171 Pa. 53 (Pa. 1895)
32 A. 1109; 1895 Pa. LEXIS 1278
Dean, McCollum, Mitchell, Steebett, Stkimiett, Williams

Mulligan v. Barnes

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mb. Chief Justice Steebett,

In its inception, this proceeding was irregular; but, in appellant’s history of the case it is averred arid not denied by appellee that, on argument in the court below in November, 1894, “the rule was amended to a rule to sliow cause why the fund arising from the sheriff’s sale under the writ in this ease and the two writs issued out of said court as of June term, 1894, Nos. 614 and 615, should not be paid into court and an issue awarded to determine the facts in dispute in regard to the distribution of said fund.”

After argument, the rule as thus amended was discharged and this appeal taken.

We have examined the record, and in view of the facts, as they appear therein, we are all of the opinion that the rule should have been made absolute. The controlling facts are practically undisputed. The legal questions involved are so well settled that discussion of them is unnecessary.

The decree discharging the rule is reversed with costs to be paid by the appellee, and it is now adjudged and decreed that the rule be made absolute and the issue awarded in due form.

Reference

Full Case Name
Edward Mulligan v. W. F. Barnes
Status
Published
Syllabus
Execution—Belay of sale—Bistribution—Payment of proceeds into court —Practice, 0. P. A rule taken by a junior execution creditor to pay the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of personal property into court should be made absolute where the testimony in support of the rule tends to show that the senior execution creditor had used his writ for the purpose of securing and maintaining a lien upon the defendant’s personal property, and not for the legitimate purpose of having a sale.