10 Sadler 9
Decided March 19, 1888
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1888-03-19
January Term, 1888, No. 94, E. D., Error to the Common Pleas of Lehigh County to review a judgment reversing the judgment of a justice of the peace against a garnishee, June term, 1887, No. 49. February 12, 1887, S. S. Messinger and G. E. Messinger, trading as S. S. Messinger & Son, obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace for $133.43 against David Hausman. February 19,1887, an attachment execution was issued and Phaon W. Mantz was summoned as garnishee.
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Affirmed · Decided 1888-03-19
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¶1A justice’s jurisdiction must be founded upon some act of assembly ; and as there is no such warrant authorizing the attachment, by a justice, of a legacy, or other interest in the estate of a decedent, the court did right in reversing the magistrate’s judgment.
¶2The judgment is affirmed.