Court Opinion

ID: 8511934
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-23 08:41:06.61342+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:51:08.877372
License: Public Domain

Smith, J.
We regret that we are compelled to reverse the judgment or order of the court of common pleas appointing a receiver in this case. The allegations oí the petition of the plaintiff below, Edward Cooney, make a clear case,if true, for the appbintment of such a receiver, but the answer filed by the defendant below, denies each and every allegation of the petition ; the burden therefore was upon the plaintiff to show that the allegations of his petition were true. We are satisfied from what was said by counsel before us at the hearing of the case, that at the hearing-of the application for a receiver before the court of common pleas, the material allegations of the petition were conceded to be true, and on the part of the defendant the only evidence produced was a number of affidavits, which constituted no defense to the claim of the plaintiff, and consisted principally of a course and scurrilous attack on the character of the plaintiff.
A bill of exceptions, however, was allowed by the trial judge without the knowledge of counsel for plaintiff below, as is claimed, doubtless by inadvertance, which purports to contain all of the evidence, but which does not contain any evidence offered by plaintiff or any admission made in court at the hearing by defendant’s counsel, and only contains the affidavits of the defendant referred to. Of course on the record there is no evidence to support the averments of the petition and the order appointing the receiver must be reversed.