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· 5/13/1889

Lenhart v. Pettis

Citations

  • 126 Pa. 420
  • 17 A. 622
  • 1889 Pa. LEXIS 891

Syllabus

<p>if, upon a rule to strike off the satisfaction of an old judgment and open the same, to permit usurious interest therein to be set up as a defence to a subsequent judgment for the same debt, it appear that the satisfaction was entered at the instance of the defendant, and not fraudulently as a device to cover up usury, it is not error to refuse the application.</p>

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  • This Court ruled a similar two-year durational requirement was rationally related to the purpose of Philadelphia’s Municipal Pension Ordinance.

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Judges: McCollum, Mitchell, Paxson, Pur, Sterrett, Williams

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