37 Pa. Super. 307 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1908
Opinion by
This is an appeal by the plaintiff from an order of the court below staying an execution, upon the ground that the full amount of the.judgment, upon which it issued, had been collected from the defendant, August Valentour, upon previous executions on the same judgment. John Passerieux and August Valentour, on March 3, 1894, executed and delivered to a trustee for Margaret Passerieux, the wife of John, a bond
“There is a difference between covenants in general and covenants secured by a penalty or forfeiture. In the latter case the obligee has his election. He may either bring an action of debt for the penalty and recover the penalty (after which recovery of the penalty he cannot resort to the covenant, because the penalty is to be a satisfaction of the whole), or if he does not choose to go for the penalty, he may proceed upon
The defendant, Valentour, the appellee, had entered into no contract which required him to make the monthly payments to the wife of Passerieux; the recital of the agreement between the parties in the bond contains no suggestion of any such engagement upon his part, nor was any action or payment by him required to satisfy the condition of the bond. The contract, as recited, and the condition of the bond required that Passerieux alone should pay. All that Valentour undertook to do was to be liable for the penalty, in case Passerieux did not pay according to the condition of the bond. While Passerieux made the monthly payments, there was no breach of the condition. After the breach Valentour could discharge himself only by the payment of the penalty: Silverthorn v. Hollister, 87 Pa. 431.
• Judgment in this case was entered under the warrant of at
The order of the court below is affirmed, and the appeal dismissed at cost of appellant.