38 Pa. Super. 578 | Pa. Super. Ct. | 1909
Opinion by
The effect of the Act of March 28,1905, P. L. 62, was to render fraudulent and voidable a sale in bulk of merchandise or fixtures or both as against any creditor of the seller who institutes an appropriate proceeding to invalidate such sale. As to such creditor merchandise sold is liable to execution as if no sale had taken place. The act does not prescribe a particular mode of procedure against such property, and the remedy of the creditor is that which existed in favor of judgment creditors before the act was passed. The process known as an attachment execution was authorized by the Act of June 16, 1836, P. L. 755. It is supplementary to the writ of fieri facias and intended to reach certain classes of personal property not subject to that writ. The thirty-fifth section of the statute provides that a-debt due the defendant or a deposit of money made by him or of goods or chattels pawned, pledged or demised may be attached and levied in satisfaction of a judgment. The property subject under this section is that of the defendant in the judgment which is due to him from another or which he has de
Judgment is reversed.