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4 Whart. 175

M'Causland v. Leuffer

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided February 11, 1839

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · decided 1839-02-11

APPEAL. This was an appeal taken by the commissioners of the District of Spring Garden, in the county of Philadelphia, from a decree of the District Court for the City and County of Philadelphia, in the matter of the distribution of the proceeds of a sheriff’s sale of certain real estate, sold by virtue of a writ of levari facias in an action brought in that Court by Alexander M‘Causland against Thomas George Leuffer.

Decided 1839-02-11

Per Curiam. —

¶1The corporation is not a creditor. The contract was made with the person who executed it. He charged the price of the work as his proper debt, took a promissory note for it, and filed a claim — all in his own name. The corporation might have set the curb-stone without the proprietor’s consent, and charged the property with the price of it, but it has not done so. It had given a general order to its stone-setter to execute all necessary curbing within the district, but under an agreement that he should collect his own moneys when he could, and that it should be only eventually liable. This, though it made the corporation a surety, gave it no right to charge the property with a lien.

¶2Decree affirmed.

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