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Constine's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided July 1, 1855

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1855-07-01

John Constine’s real estate having been sold by the sheriff, April 2, 1853, under a venditioni exponas, and the writ returned on the 4th of.April, the court appointed an auditor to distribute the proceeds. The proceeds were insufficient to pay all the lien creditors; Constine was not entitled to, and did not claim, any part of the fund, and did not take any part in the proceedings for distribution.

Decided 1855-07-01

¶1The opinion of the court was delivered by

Lewis, C. J.

¶2— This is an appeal by John Constine from the distribution of the proceeds of his own real estate sold at sheriff’s sale. The auditor’s report shows that the proceeds were not sufficient to pay all the lien creditors. It is not pretended that the *243claims of tbe creditors were unjust; nor does it appear, from any part of tbe record, that Jobn Constine is, in any event, entitled to any part of tbe money. It does not appear that be claimed any of it, or took any part in tbe proceedings in tbe court below. He filed no exceptions whatever to tbe auditor’s report. His special exception here is that tbe court bad no right to appoint an auditor, and decree distribution-, “ when there was no fund in court.” If this exception bad been made in tbe court below, tbe necessary entries, showing that tbe money was in court, could have been made ; or if tbe money was not in court, tbe distribution would have been suspended until,-it was brought there! To make this exception after final decree, is to make it out of time. To make it here, without presenting it to tbe court below, is to make it in the wrong place. As tbe record stands, we are bound to presume that tbe money was within the grasp of tbe court. Tbe ease of William’s Appeal has no application. In that case, it appeared affirmatively that tbe money had in part been distributed by the sheriff at his own peril, and was, therefore, not in the power of tbe court. 9 Barr, 27 9.

¶3There is no error in tbe decree of distribution.

¶4Decree affirmed.

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