Case Name: Crammond and another, surviving executors of Kay, surviving partner of Clow against The Trustees of the late Bank of the United States
Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1818-07-18
Citations: 4 Serg. & Rawle 147
Docket Number: 
Parties: Crammond and another, surviving executors of Kay, surviving partner of Clow against The Trustees of the late Bank of the United States.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Sergeant & Rawle)
Volume: 4
Pages: 147–147

Head Matter:
Crammond and another, surviving executors of Kay, surviving partner of Clow against The Trustees of the late Bank of the United States.
Saturday, July 18.
IN this case the following was delivered as the opinion of the Court, by ■ J
The Court V11 not .°rdei' the garnishee in a foreign atatiswei* mterrogatories Septem1789, be-the return °.^eaSgf^a~ him. The in-may fe served the garnishee uJy^an^werthe writ, the makeSueh 01> de.r as wil,' a°celerate the plaintiff’s recovery-

Opinion:
Tilghman C. J. "
The plaintiff in this case, having * » tained judgment against the defendant in the attachment, has issued a scire facias against the garnishee, returnable to the next term. The plaintiff's attorney now moves for an , , . . r , , , . , that the garnishee shall, at some day prior to the return the scire facias, answer interrogatories filed under a supplement to' the attachment act, passed. 28th September, 1789, 2 Sm. L. S02. Although the attachment is always served on the garnishee, yet before any judgment can be entered, to feet him, it has been the uniform practice to issue a scire facias against him. This scire facias is not expressly given by any act of assembly, but is probably derived from the custom of London, which we have followed in our proceedings in foreign attachments. The garnishee then, being called on to appear on a certain day mentioned in the scire j. . * , " . , Jactas, it appears to the Court improper that he should be ordered to answer interrogatories before that day. The interrogatories may be sent out and served with the scire facias, and then if the garnishee makes any delay in answering them after the return of the writ, the Court will make such further order as will expedite the plaintiff's recovery. This we understand to have been the practice, and we see no cause for departing from it.
End or March Term, Eastern District, 1818,