Commonwealth Ex Rel. Margiotti v. Globe Indemnity Co.

192 A. 871, 326 Pa. 537, 1937 Pa. LEXIS 518

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: May 26, 1937
• Docket: Appeal, 13
• Status: Published

Opinion

Opinion by Mr.

Justice Linn,

This case was tried without a jury under the Act of April 22,1874, P. L. 109,12 PS section 688, by the three learned judges of the court below after the record before us in Commonwealth ex rel. v. Globe Indemnity Co., 313 Pa. 498, 170 A. 690, was remitted. Judgment was entered for defendant.

The subject of controversy is part of a bank deposit. The court found as a fact that the receiver of the bank has in his possession available for payment to the Commonwealth a sum in excess of the amount claimed in this suit by the Commonwealth and that dividends in that amount payable to the Commonwealth have been declared and are awaiting payment by the receiver, but that the Commonwealth “has neglected and refused to collect said dividends^” This fact is not disputed.

We understand from what was stated at the argument that the Commonwealth refused to take the payment offered in order, if possible, to have the court reconsider what was said by Simpson, J., in the course of the opinion filed in Com. ex rel. v. National Surety Co. et al., 310 Pa. 108, 164 A. 788, in its possible relation to other facts that may call for adjudication in another suit or suits and between other parties not now before us. We all agree that this should not be done until the issues and parties are properly in court. By receiving the dividends available the Commonwealth will have received the balance of its deposit.

The appeal is dismissed.