Case Name: Gear v. Harrington
Court: Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1901-05-16
Citations: 1 Pa. Just. L. Rep. 17
Docket Number: No. 108
Parties: Gear v. Harrington.
Judges: 
Reporter: Pennsylvania Justices' Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 17–17

Head Matter:
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:
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.