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4 Walk. 352

Clark's Appeal

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided April 27, 1885

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1885-04-27

99 July Term, 1884. Mrs. Samuel Clark borrowed from Patrick Quinn $106 on August 31st, 1875. He boarded with her at the time. On June 12, 1879, he entered up the note, and issued execution thereon on January 29,1881. Certain goods levied on were-claimed as belonging to her husband’s estate.

Decided 1885-04-27

¶1The Supreme Court affirmed the decree of Common Pleas on April 27th, 1885, in the following opinion :

Per Curiam.

¶2When a debtor owes several persons he may transfer property to one creditor to pay the debt due him, and the latter may take and hold the same, although he knows his debtor owed' other persons and could not pay all of them. There is no evidence of any fraud in this case. In the absence of a bankrupt law, a creditor may be preferred as was done here.

¶3Decree affirmed and appeal dismissed at the costs of the appellant.

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