The Lehigh County Law Journal: Containing Cases Decided in the Several Courts of Lehigh County and in Other Courts, Volume 7Call Publishing Company, 1918 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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accident Act of April action affiant affidavit of defense agreement alleged Allegheny County amended amount appear assumpsit averment bailment bill bond claim claimant Common Pleas Commonwealth Company compensation contract costs counsel Court of Common court of equity creditors death deceased decedent decree deed defendant defendant's divorce dollars dower employe entered entitled equity estoppel evidence execution executors fact February 21 filed follows Groman Groner injury insured interest issue judgment June jury land Lehigh County liability libellant lien Luca Mary Egan ment mortgage motion negligence Northampton County notice opinion owner paid parties payment Pennsylvania person petition plaintiff Pleas of Lehigh proceedings purchase money question railroad real estate reason recover rule Schuylkill County scire facias sheriff's sheriff's sale statement statute street tenant Term testator testified testimony thereof tion trial trust verdict Westmoreland County widow wife witness York County
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Page 30 - The sale, transfer or assignment, in bulk, of any part or the whole of a stock of merchandise, or merchandise and the fixtures pertaining to the conducting of said business, otherwise than in the ordinary course of trade and in the regular and usual prosecution of the business of the seller, transferor or assignor, shall be void as against the creditors of the seller, transferor, assignor, unless the seller.
Page 139 - ... property which prior to the filing of the petition he could by any means have transferred or which might have been levied upon and sold under judicial process against him; provided, that when any bankrupt shall have any insurance policy which has a cash surrender value payable to himself, his estate or personal representatives...
Page 210 - No foreign corporation shall do any business in this State without having one or more known places of business and an authorized agent or agents in the same upon whom process may be served.
Page 236 - ... at noon, against all direct loss or damage by fire, except as hereinafter provided, to an amount not exceeding dollars to the following described property while located and contained as described herein, and not elsewhere, to wit...
Page 136 - This Act shall not affect the allowance to bankrupts of the exemptions which are prescribed by the laws of the United States or by the State laws in force at the time of the filing of the petition...
Page 79 - The contention to the contrary proceeds upon the assumption that interstate commerce by railroad can be separated into its several elements, and the nature of each determined regardless of its relation to others or to the business as a whole. But this is an erroneous assumption. The true test always is: Is the work in question a part of the interstate commerce in which the carrier is engaged...
Page 88 - The said Columbus McDevitt was surrendered to the jail warden by his bondsmen and committed to prison on the 4th day of November, 1912; the same day he filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and was adjudicated a bankrupt on the 6th day of the same month.
Page 79 - Was the employee at the time of the injury, engaged in interstate transportation or in work so closely related to it as to be practically a part of it.
Page 137 - A policy of insurance issued by any company incorporated under this Act, on the life of any person, expressed to be for the benefit of any married woman, whether procured by herself, her husband or any other person, shall inure to her separate "use and benefit, and that of her children, independently of her husband or his creditors, or the person effecting the same, or his creditors. If the premium is paid by any person with intent to defraud his creditors, an amount equal to the premium so paid,...
Page 321 - ... the procedure upon claims filed therefor; the methods for preserving such liens and enforcing payment of such claims; the effect of judicial sales of the properties liened; the distribution of the proceeds of such sales...