Rule Text
When perishable property is the subject of the appeal, the lower court may make any order relating to its sale or disposition that shall be necessary or proper, and direct any fund realized to be paid into court to await the outcome of the appeal.
Amendment history: The provisions of this Rule 1739 amended December 11, 1978, effective December 30, 1978, 8 Pa.B. 3802. Immediately preceding text appears at serial page (27952).
Plain-English Summary (for reference only — not a substitute for the rule text above)
This summary is not the rule. The rule text controls.
If something that can spoil or lose value quickly is involved in a court case being appealed, the lower court can still act. It can order that property to be sold or handled in a way that makes sense while the appeal is going on.
Any money made from that sale gets held by the court until the appeal is finished. That way, the property does not go to waste while everyone waits for the final decision.
Committee Notes
42 Pa.C.S. § 3546 (relief from liability for loss of property if expenses not paid) provides that any officer enforcing orders of a tribunal shall be relieved from any liability for the loss, destruction, removal of or damage to any personal property, or for any injury to any real property, levied upon, seized or taken into possession by virtue of any process if the person lodging such process with the officer shall refuse to advance or secure upon demand the reasonable fees and expenses incident to the seizure, safekeeping and proper protection of such property.