Case Name: Commonwealth ex rel. Margiotti, Appellant, v. Globe Indemnity Company
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1937-06-25
Citations: 326 Pa. 537
Docket Number: Appeal, No. 13
Parties: Commonwealth ex rel. Margiotti, Appellant, v. Globe Indemnity Company.
Judges: Before Kephart, C. J., Schaffer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern and Barnes, JJ.
Reporter: Pennsylvania State Reports
Volume: 326
Pages: 537–539

Head Matter:
Commonwealth ex rel. Margiotti, Appellant, v. Globe Indemnity Company.
Argued May 26,1937.
Before Kephart, C. J., Schaffer, Maxey, Drew, Linn, Stern and Barnes, JJ.
John Y. Scott, with him Charles J. Margiotti, Attorney General, and Edward Friedman, Deputy Attorney General, for appellant.
William Clarice Mason, with him Frederick H. Knight and Morgan, Lewis <& Bockius, for appellee.
June 25, 1937:

Opinion:
Opinion by Mr.
Justice Linn,
This case was tried without a jury under the Act of April 22,1874, P. L. 109,12 PS section 688, by the three learned judges of the court below after the record before us in Commonwealth ex rel. v. Globe Indemnity Co., 313 Pa. 498, 170 A. 690, was remitted. Judgment was entered for defendant.
The subject of controversy is part of a bank deposit. The court found as a fact that the receiver of the bank has in his possession available for payment to the Commonwealth a sum in excess of the amount claimed in this suit by the Commonwealth and that dividends in that amount payable to the Commonwealth have been declared and are awaiting payment by the receiver, but that the Commonwealth "has neglected and refused to collect said dividends^" This fact is not disputed.
We understand from what was stated at the argument that the Commonwealth refused to take the payment offered in order, if possible, to have the court reconsider what was said by Simpson, J., in the course of the opinion filed in Com. ex rel. v. National Surety Co. et al., 310 Pa. 108, 164 A. 788, in its possible relation to other facts that may call for adjudication in another suit or suits and between other parties not now before us. We all agree that this should not be done until the issues and parties are properly in court. By receiving the dividends available the Commonwealth will have received the balance of its deposit.
The appeal is dismissed.