Case ID: pa-just-l-rep_1/html/0017-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Swartz, P. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Gear v. Harrington.
    Attachment under the Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 139 cannot issue without a judgment first had to support it.
    Attachment under the Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 139 — Certiorari.
    Certiorari to M. F. Ferring, Justice of the Peace. Exceptions to the proceeding's before the Justice.
    No. 108, March Term, 1901, C. P. of Montgomery county.
    Freas Styer, Esq., for exceptions.
    May 16, 1901.
   Opinion by

Swartz, P. J.,

By the Court:

The Justice issued a summons and attachment under the same writ. This procedure he attempts to justify under the Act of May 8, 1876, P. L. 139.

The decisions of the lower Courts are not in entire harmony in the interpretation of this Act of 1876. We shall cast our lot with the majority and hold that the attachment cannot issue without a judgment first had to support it. To read the Act otherwise is to give it extraordinary powers not clearly conferred by the language used.

The third exception is therefore sustained and the proceedings before the Justice are set aside.