Miller v. Preston

Citations

• 154 Pa. 63
• 25 A. 1041
• 1893 Pa. LEXIS 841

Syllabus

<p>Judgment — Satisfaction of — Attorney at law — Agent.</p> <p>Where money is paid in good faith by the defendant in a judgment to an attorney who enters his appearance on record for plaintiff and the attorney satisfies the judgment and pays the money over to a person who is apparently plaintiff’s agent, plaintiff cannot, three years after the death of the attorney, have the satisfaction stricken off on the ground that he never received the money, that the party who received it was not his agent and that he had not employed the attorney, the evidence showing that the party who received the money acted as plaintiff’s agent in lending and collecting the interest.</p>